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 Hey Nostr, we are working on improving the onboarding experience within Primal, and could use your help. Please shill us the best accounts to follow in the following categories: 

art
bitcoin
finance 
fitness
food
fun & memes
gaming
human rights
music
news
nostr
photography
sports
tech
travel

Also shill us any categories we didn’t cover that already have good content. 

Our criteria for suggested accounts to follow: the account needs to be actively posting high signal content on nostr. Our current working list is available below. Please tell us who we missed: 

https://listr.lol/npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg 
 Great initiative guys.

I like to suggest some big categories.

1. Entrepreneurship
2. Business lessons and tips 
3. Personality development

You can add me @Men ☕ in personality development, 😁

Soon will do research and suggest some in each category.

Give me some time. 
 Looking forward to your suggestions! Thank you ;) 
 I second this! 🙌🏼

All of them, especially personal development! 🙌🏼✨

You can add me to personal development as well if you would like  @daniella

Maybe also #spirituality (any faith) or #consciousness which are topics that do come up in relation to Bitcoin in the community as well

Thanks ✨ 
 Nice 🙂 
 I still say to follow everyone who you find curious 
👀 
Because whether you hate em or love em 
It’s all a beautiful spectrum of humanity 
    And bots 
And death 💀 
Dearth 
More …. 
 For photography: @muneomi 
 Thank you for the suggestion! ;) 
 What an honor! Thank  you🫂 
 Sports:
@sportstrNFL 
@sportstrMLB 
@sportstrncaambb 
Its a project I just started this weekend. Its purely just for me to get some sports on my feed and is just fetching some rss feeds. It aint much but I am hoping to expand on it.
https://github.com/jbrauck-unchained/sportstr
also @Global Sports Central does great content
#sportstr 
 This is great! Thanks for the suggestions! ;) 
 This is very needed to widen the scope of discussions🏆great work. I do art. Will stay in touch.

KINGS. https://image.nostr.build/f12f2b1ad0f32672300bcf1f047b40d5c1c5423ef03f34c7dc4eefba6dc67700.jpg  
 Agree with @Men ☕ 
entrepreneurship should be added as a category 
 🫡 
 How to add someone to the list? 
 Take a look at the old school Yahoo category breakdown. Pre-Google their directory was king and well categorized.

Also as a new #bitcoin nostrich using primal I’d love to be in your list! 
 Art: @Urzeitshop

I post PaleoArt of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures by various artists. 
 Perhaps this would be useful to find accounts: https://docs.nostr.wine/api/classification 
 +1 👆 
 A bubble diagram of the data would be so awesome. 
 Good stuff. Privacy & security would be a good category to add. I regularly post high signal in this category. 
 💯 agree. Ava is  very high signal in these areas. 
 I second this suggestion. 
 I think my activism might fit in the categories of #Bitcoin, Human Rights and Travel. 
#SelfShill 
 Will there be any categories for feet?

Asking on behalf of @Derek Ross 
 🤣🤣🤣 Best ever 🤣🤣🤣 
 Sir, I've graduated from #footstr to #thighstr thanks to @Marie 👀 
 😭 
 #thighstr is where it’s at 😉 
 Photography:  @Karine Studio and  @muneomi 
 What an honor! Thank  you.🫂 
 I intent to develop the XR VR art category . 

I will also try to make integrate some real time 3d view integrated in nostr clients 😉  
 Would really love to be a part of that. VR stuff especially. 
 I’m the bird and Roman history guy. I already called shotgun. 
 @BitcoinDiscGolf for sports, #discgolf 
 #gold or precious metals in general. 
 "human rights" are a subversive antichrist commie thing so maybe nix that - better to call it liberty/sovereignty if you dont want it to turn into tranny-surgery fundraiser. 
 I intend to continue posting on our adventure abord our (@saltylady and I) sailboat around the med. i hope to be posting regular content around sailing, marine life and hiking. Hope this can inspire fellow Nostrers! 
 Gardening / homesteading would be nice.

Any easy way to do this on amethyst? I want to scroll through my follows and select all that fit.  
 What about “shitposting”? I’m a high signal in there /s 🤣

Seriously, FOSS would be a good category 
 Yessss 😀😀😀 
 Category: #Bitcoin (you could also create an #AI category)

Account: @Spirit of Satoshi  
 For gaming:
@Stitch
(he's getting things ready to post again, as he's moving things to nostr) 
 Actually, I'll poke him to be more active, even before the transition isn't done. 
 Make the Wallet button more visible for new users who haven't activated yet. Encourage them to make a first note, set their bio.. 
 For fun, #tardstr is a great hashtag. 
 Categories

Pets
Nature (Forest, Sealife)
Fashion 
Make up 
Agriculture
Health
Gossip 
 Comics should be a category! 
 GM
Semangat💪🏻Primal❤️‍🔥
https://m.primal.net/HmKf.jpg 
 Fitness: … me, new to Nostr/Primal but insanely excited to post some quality content here as an exercise physiologist/coach/educator 
 2A 
 Lifestyle
Animals
Short films content @BeOG 
 #nostrfr qui verriez vous dans ces listes de la communauté francophone pour mettre un peu de visibilité et aider les nouveaux ? 

nostr:nevent1qqs02z3h8kajqm2qa9y7jls23ne9vdxn7nq74mzd57vsejrttsykgngppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzqy36ltnarpa6xmtdmnvhm062e3v6allzg0mcykf0lre9a4temucxqvzqqqqqqyk9tyh8 
 Maybe some local language categories other than English, like Frenchies.

We are are small but strong community and it could facilitate access to new nostrichian 

Some leader :

@JohnOnchain (dev)
@bitcoin-fr (press)
@Jacques (podcaster)
@urban (podcaster)

And some other if you want  
 👀👇
nostr:nevent1qqs02z3h8kajqm2qa9y7jls23ne9vdxn7nq74mzd57vsejrttsykgngpvemhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33v4jxgwtvwqurg73cdf6hxut4dfa8yetrwd6ku6npxfuxxutddfkrqctydfjx5dne8p6kz6mpdgunxvn9dfckzu3cde6ng0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2q3qzga04e73s7ard4kaektaha9vckdwll3y8auztyhl3uj764ua7vrqxpqqqqqqzw0c03t 
 @agichoote aka MemyselfandI make and post great abstract art :) 
 @Animals
@proofofearth

 
 Thanks 🥰 
 Food: 
@Food52
@31482f49
@Mayor Guy Fieri
@Bon Appétit
@SAVEUR

Gaming:
@SteamDeckHQ
@Phil Spencer
@PlayStation
@Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
@Rockstar Games
@Xbox
@Bethesda
@Bungie
@Ubisoft
@Nintendo of America
@Polygon

Sports:
@Men in Blazers
@NBA
@MLS
@Major League Baseball
@ESPN

Tech:
@Ars Technica
@AlternativeTo
@f6a93100
@Y Combinator
@0ccf37f4
@The Verge
@ef9bc3b8
@1c9767b4
@9to5Mac

US Government News
@Department of Defense 🇺🇸
@U.S. Department of Energy
@Justice Department
@U.S. Department of Education
@HealthCare.gov
@United States Space Force 
 Thanks for these suggestions, but they appear to be replicas of Twitter, Mastodon, etc. accounts. We are looking for real nostr accounts, genuinely posting on nostr and engaging with other nostr users.  
 Thanks, could you add some music artists? 🙋🏻‍♂️ 
 Sure, any you have in mind? 
 If your interest is #China and a very non- conventional take that’s my focus here. A bit sporadic at the moment mind you. 
 I don't know if I fall under a category, but I would be happy to help welcome newcomers  💜 
 Cartoon / Toons 
 But I see fun/ memes so that would fit 
 Offgrid 
Farming

Large community on nostr. 
 General Education
STEM Education
Nostr Education
Bitcoin Education
 @TheSchoolofBitcoin ^

Minecraft
Roblox

Anime
Manga

Permaculture
Horticulture
Nature

Freedom
OSS
FOSS
SelfHosting
Networking
Programming

Security
Cyber-Security
Privacy 
 @Ava for these 3 at least ^

More to come I'm sure.
 
 Well done everybody contributing to this thread. Really needed imo and awesome to see people sharing their interests too. 💜🫂🙏

https://m.primal.net/HmOZ.png  
 🙏 🙏  
 Art -  @isolabell.art 🎨 

Food -  @BenJustman (wine)

Human Rights -  @ayelen, @Alex Li , @anchek  , @lyuda_kozlovska 

Music -  @manlikekweks

Travel -  @laura

Bitcoin -  @Federico Rivi 
 ❤️ 
 I have some art too! 
 🫡 🫡 🫡  
 Thank you 🧡 
 for Bitcoin & Nostr : bhavik@nostrplebs.com

for Biology : (started making Biology college lectures on NOSTR ) npub1x0y67rdadlm76pwpgeh5vcawnad4u43utgduh698nn3ucwv98dmqlxmfc0 
 I can’t seem to find a “bookmark” feature 

So a way to save a note to go back to later would be nice 
 for Bitcoin & Nostr :  @bhavik

for Biology Lectures: @biologyclasses

started making Biology college lectures on NOSTR ) npub1x0y67rdadlm76pwpgeh5vcawnad4u43utgduh698nn3ucwv98dmqlxmfc0 
 Thank you so much! 🫡  
 How about Video category so TikTok'ers can gather? 
 👋 Spirituality and Bitcoin  
 🫡 🫡  
 Would really appreciate an inclusion under art and photography… 
 Philosophy -  @Gigi,  @erikcason,  @Jeff Booth,  @alanbwt,  @knutsvanholm,  @TomerStrolight (+ perhaps myself) 
 Permaculture -  @rev.hodl,   @jwadd
Films/filmmaking -  @cinemuck,  @MaxDeMarco,  @kineticfinance,  @alana,  @joenakamoto 
Design -  @NoGood ✌️,  @Asanoha 
Yoga? Self-development? AI? 
BTW for some reason Primal completely refused the post all of this in one note.  
 Looks like tagging  @hbhgardens  (also in Permaculture)
Made Primal break for me for some reason 
 Thanks homie! 
 🙏🏻 
 Hey Kontext, saw all your notes. Thanks so much for the suggestions. You're a great help man! Appreciate it 🫡  
 🫡🫂 
 Consider our Bitcoin page  @tw_bitcoin

We collect precious gems of tweets from Bitcoin Twitter and share it here in nostr and twitter for the plebs to experience 'Bitgasm'. 
 Gotcha! 
 I do photography posts occastionally in nostr  @saiy2k 
 Great content man! You're in for sure! 🫡  
 at some point we want aub categories. as an example I would look into brazilian and australian sports and finance. 
 We do kombucha  
 <- I seem to be the only aggressive rollerblader on here so follow me to get 100% of your rollerblading needs! 
 Adding you for sports! 🫡  
 for sports  @Global Sports Central  
 They have already been added ! 🫡  
 Hello Marko, I'd throw our hat in the ring. We travel the world, run a german travel blog and youtube channel.
#travel 
 Your work looks awesome! Just added you! 🫡  
 thank you  @Marko we'll do our best to provide helpful #travel content along the line.
At the moment your list seems to be outdated but possibly will update during the day. 
 I brinda you real & raw travel adventures. If that's your thing give me a follow
#PilgartExplores #travel 
 Your work is awesome! Just added you! 🫡  
 Thank you brother and right bck at you 🫡 
 Art : @21jclp 🫡 
 Wow dude, love your work. You're in for sure 🫡  
 Thank you for your words my fren! I appreciate this. 🫡 
 @ODELL @jack @ROCKSTAR @LynAlden @CARLA 
 Thanks for the suggestions! These guys are legends! 
 @Oshi @thebtcco @satscoffee @Mapletrade 
 Thank you fine sir! 🫂 
 ANIME ART: @Anime Waifu Daily⚡
Music: @Ainsley @Sara Jade
Plants: @Fern
Bitcoin: @Natalia @bitcoinekasi @isabella
Travel: @kineticfinance
Tech: @brugeman
Photo: @Malos10 @Karine Studio 
Nostr: @garden_variety_jess @TheGrinder @Lou
Art: @🦄⚡️  
 Thanks for the shoutout dude 🫂🫂 
 Hey, thanks for recommending us! 
 Not shilling any categories yet, but I'm hoping that down the road, some of those categories (sports, news, art) will have enough content to justify breaking them into subcategories. 
 I hope so too. We're seriously lacking content on Nostr. 
 Art:

@Enrico


Design:

@Karnage

@NoGood ✌️

@nielliesmons

@Jordan Eskovitz


Photography:

@HodlHomestead


Law:

@Aaron Daniel


Businesses/ Goods and Services:

@Mapletrade

@LeatherMint

@Golden Tallow

@SweetSats 
 WOW! Thanks for the suggestions! This is awesome ;) 
 Instead of hardcoding starter accounts, we should work toward traversing lists/labels/topics based on WoT (maybe bootstrapped by a static list). 
 There is no WOT yet without starter auto-follows, or categorized suggested follows. 

Primal is rightly incrementally improving by going the latter.

What I’d like to see on @damus is a powerful search on onboarding that asks “what are you must excited about”.  If the person types “knitting”, the dozen knitting profiles are returned with option to follow. 

cc @nielliesmons @rob 
 For sure, you always need to bootstrap. And Coracle currently uses static lists too, it's a fine first step. But it would be amazing to see these bootstrap lists turned into a "explore" tool which opens up the network based on dynamic trust networks. 
 This was my idea behind crowd funded classifications that are published publicly via labels. 

The problem is the classification work you’re asking for is expensive (if you use a 3rd party) or time consuming (to build it yourself) and nobody is willing to pay for it. 
 WoT and a seed user npub (inviter) would be a great start 
 there should be a similar razor as Occams for engineering solutions

the simplest solution out of a range of options is usually the most effective 
 CONTEXT is one of the essential ingredients for getting WoT to work.

Category-specific follows is one example of that. 
 this is something that invites would help resolve... they could see from their inviters' WoT immediately 
 THIS 
 Here is the user story. Shout out to @The: Daniel⚡️ for inspiring discussion at nostrville on my favorite user story thus far

https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues/1696 
 Coracle has something very similar to this (pubkeys, relays, groups, rather than topics).

https://coracle.us-southeast-1.linodeobjects.com/invites.mov 
 Love the personalization. Nostr needs more personalization 
 it's a client side thing though, just a matter of an invite link with onboarding flow and and immediate view of that feed while they spin up their identity

need an easy flow for nos2x type tool - it doesn't have a keygenerator in it last i recall using it... alby has a master key seed generation scheme but that's invite only, so, yeah

i think if you want to promote onboarding you need to fork nos2x and add a better visual and put a generator and backup word key thing 
 yes just should add... WoT was the killer feature that made it really hard for me to switch to nostrudel because i needed outbox model, and i miss the almost working NIP-42 as well

make outbox model for coracle and tighten up NIP-42 and i'll be back 
 You keep saying coracle doesn't do outbox, but... it does. What in particular is missing? 
 when i use it with my relay's chat bot, which often doesn't have even a profile published to the relay, i get all kinds of funny things happening with DMs, and the NIP-42 often takes a minute to actually go through

i wrote a chat flow that asks the user to reply with a challenge text and it lets me auth on chat in 10 seconds

i've written a tool that knows how to respond to a NIP-42 challenge auth envelope, and it does it instantly, it usually takes a minute or more, way way longer than i have the patience for to do testing

the lack of NIP-42 support is almost my biggest pet peeve of all existing nostr clients out there

it's SO easy to do it, but none work 
 Is that why my filter.nostr.wine relay keeps getting dropped on Coracle? I keep adding it, but it doesn't seem to work and eventually just disappears from the list. 
 ah yeah i get that one too... very often being dropped, or publishing disabled

it's because the NIP-42 support is not very solid yet

it's better! actually, come to think of it, it seems to work perfectly in nostrudel but nostrudel doesn't respond to my relay's auth challenges 
 i can only speculate that nostr.wine accepts posts signed by paid users by default no matter where they came from, and that they are not already existing in the database 
 @hzrd149 @Mazin  question: nostrudel doesn't support my relay in development when it has auth-required in the limitation field of NIP-11 but it does work with nostr.land and nostr.wine - either of you two have any tips on how i get my relay to cooperate properly there? 
 Not me 🤷‍♂️ 
 what relay are you running nostr.wine on? so i can try and figure out why it makes nostrudel do auth... i'm guessing maybe it's a NIP-11 thing, and i thought i'd implemented it but maybe i haven't i mean, if it's vanilla i suppose the relay info page will show 
 it only gives info about it being 0.3.1 what? no software field filled in in the NIP-11 
 doesn't say it's strfry, is it the rust one? 
 The backend is strfry but we run our own custom proxy socket in front for AUTH and account management (not open source). 
 ah, and here we see more reasons why this hasn't become widely supported

thanks 
 i won't be renewing my nostr.wine subscription or recommending it anymore until i hear you open sourced this sprocket

i can't believe what i'm reading rn 
 I don't understand what I'm reading, TBH. What are they doing and why is it not ideal? 
 you know about the direct message metadata leak problem right?

we are so far away from having this solved while people are keeping necessary NIP-42 implementations under wraps

it's short term thinking about their own gain and zero thought about the bigger picture for the protocol and its future, completely unnecessary, there really isn't that many competitors out there and this kind of short cut to keeping them out is contrary to everything this stuff is supposed to be about 
 NIP-42 shouldn't only be a gate to paid access it should also gate access to DMs and application specific data 
 So, you're saying that the implementations are too narrow in scope? 
 i'm saying that it's an elephant in the room - free speech is fine but a reasonable layer of protection against access to privileged data - we here see a prisoner's dilemma that nobody wants to take the cost (a few days effort) to solve, which is abombinable 
 I think this won't change, until more people use SDKs.  Everyone will just build the absolute minimum they need. The correct model is for them to only implement the minimum they need from the core library. 
 Yeah, Nostrudel seems to work. 
 I left the npub and everything off, this time. Seeing if that works. Just the relay address. 
 Ok, but none of that is the outbox model 
 doesn't change the fact i can't use it for testing 
 Yeah, but I can't fix outbox if I don't know what's wrong with it, you didn't answer my question 
 it isn't contacting my relay even though it's in the relay list - the only entry even

it looks like the relay list in coracle still works by the old relay lists and not NIP-65 in/outbox lists, to me, that's why i said it

it only worked well when i ran an instance and locked it to my relay 
 the NIP-42 worked better in the custom instance situation too, like sometimes as quick as 10 seconds or less to auth 
 Cool, I'll look into both those things 
 yeah i saw you had worked on the relay list page to add the ability to easily add more... maybe to add some buttons so you can set relays as in/outbox? 
 Exactly! 
 So what you’re saying is that you’d like your WoT to help you curate the list of categories.

And you’d like your WoT to curate a list of user accounts for each category.

This is PRECISELY what DCoSL was built to do.

The proof of concept already exists as a desktop app, and @kinjo is doing excellent work rebuilding it as a webapp. Stay tuned! 
 Here an artist:  @Tomoko 
 Thank you for your suggestion!! 
 Memes: npub19cql0qvn3n8t0mx40hnstlurvkatke7r8wjpfg6zvt2vdd3ttkfq66hgvc

 @nostrmeme 
 Thank you for the suggestion!  
 This would be great to help build a more general audience. I think right now it's a real echo chamber that would put many off. Adding curation options on entry would also help those who don't want a totally unfiltered environment. On my first hour on here I saw some extreme shit that would turn many away. Most people still want some kind of moderation and giving them control over that from the get-go (rather than algorithms) would get more on board. 
 Couldn't agree more! 🫡  
 I'm the biggest shower account on nostr 🙋‍♂️ 
 Quite an accomplishment ! 
 Follow me! 
 🫡 💟  
 Need a gardening / homesteading section. @rev.hodl 
 #farmupdate for my documents 
 I’d like to put myself forward for art!  I not only post about my pottery, I try to teach a little about the process when I do. 
I’ll put myself forward for food, as well. Probably food and art are my most consistent fields of original posts. 

More suggestions:

(Non exhaustive lists, I might pop back in with more later, and more adds for other lists)

Art:
@flomontoya 
@Kanuto 
@Endcape 
@isolabell.art 🎨 
@50c5c98c 
@karo 
@Lydia 
@Enrico 

Food:
@FarmerTbone 
@ewelina 
@Queen ₿ 

I think that if art and photography will be separate categories, gardening/permaculture and nature could be considered separate as well. I would normally consider photography as part of art. But for photography and videography as distinct:
@muneomi 
@a7bbc310 
@hes ⚡️ 
@Nosnevets 
@HodlHomestead 

Bitcoin:
@TheGuySwann 
@LynAlden 
 Thanks @reltbracco 💞 
 What an honor!
Thank you. 
 Thank you 🧡🚀 
 👆👆👆 This post deserves #introductions and #grownostr so people can give non-Bitcoin follows right away. #plebchain #follow 
 thank you dear 💜🫂 
 @jackspirko posts lots of good posts about bitcoin, lifestyle, preparedness, and general information. 
He has a podcast too 
 Im happy to take position of chief cake lady #midnightbaker 😉🍰🧁

I’m surprised no one has mentioned @bitpopart yet. Should definitely be included in the art category 👌 
 Yes, check out my art 🎨  
 #cats  
 put a new category:

#weirdstr  
 Science category 
 Add #hispano (users that post in Spanish)

@Lou 
@Igno⚡ 
@negr0 
@🦢 Cardxyz 🦬 
@Genri 🇨🇺 
@BlueMoon 
@Azorcode 

Sigan ampliando la lista chicos

Hagamos la comunidad hispana grande 
 Gracias por la mención bro 🫂🤙🏻

Agrego a @marcelo y @Don Hackote 
 Oh, olvide a algunos, son varios 😅 @johnny @andreadcorreia @nos.social @lunaticoin 

Muchos que se me siguen quedando 
 Gracias 😃✨ 
 A mí me había faltado mencionar a @Tomyy 🫡 
 🍀🙏🫡 Gracias  
 Gracias por etiquetarme! Aquí los míos:

@flix @Cyph3rp9nk @lunaticoin 
 Gracias por la mención 🫡🫂 escribo poco en español, pero estoy atento a las cuentas hispanohablantes 🫶🏻 
 Gracias 😃✨ 
 Yo por acá, saludos 
 🇨🇺🫡 
 Gracias Bro  @am no había visto esa mención porque apunto a otro perfil mío de azor jeje pero igual gracias lo mismo digo que te sigan a ti un abrazo 🫂  
 Más adelante me dejas saber el nuevo user 🫡 
 Es el mismo  @Azorcode solo que cuando le das el arrobado aparecen 2 y el que tengo activo es el que tiene este avatar. Igual acá esta mi npub : npub1zypevnu7njgdlfx6xq8thsewqzfrxggu7rhp2ane2vsym7lddyjqu67x87

Gracias 🙏  
 Oh, ya, fuí yo que me equivoqué 🫡 
 weird category
put me into it 😅 
 Same lol 
 For travel 🧡🗺️☀️🤙 ...

check the hashtag # Uncharted 

... if you like 😁🤘! 
 fucking great idea  
 They are aware and are currently building a new list of recommended profiles. Post your suggestions here: 
nostr:note1759rw0dmypk5p62fa9lq4r8j2c6d8axpatkymfuepnyxkhqfv3xs6mup5z 
 Yeah, I know. Those are the lists I'm referring to. 
 Yeah, I know. Those are the lists I'm referring to.