Thinking about this some more — I think content curation can work, we just need to think about it differently. So with ontolo's model, you have (random) content, and you ask users to label it. The assumption is that the content being presented is worth labeling (or even looking at) in the first place.

If we reverse the model, and ask people what they want to curate first, we can then use automation to narrow down content suggestions to then go into that bucket. This seems better because the curator has expressed interest in the subject matter, and has a much smaller pool of content to sift through. Instead of humans training AIs, AI could queue up higher value work for humans.

The interface could work something like this:

- What are you interested in? [categories/subcategories/custom label]
- What scope do you want to use? [follows|network|global|relay]
- Use heuristics, search terms, topics, and AI to present content to label. So for example, if they're curating pictures, don't show notes without a url in them. 

 I really like the idea of being able to organize content in to buckets or streams. Then you could subscribe to that stream, say I want the memes tagged by @hola_si_bueno_chau here instead of having them share them with me on IG. ;-D 

 Here is the current flow, and a proposed flow for ontolo. 

Note it is not specified which is a human and/or agent task. https://image.nostr.build/fbead607a3ce2f0a801eda114865f6eab713b95547144577d0d32bf8b26bb861.png https://image.nostr.build/55db5e765dccbab69febae452731e85e53905e3b50228f4171a9818ac74b0aaf.png  

 We talked about this a bit on TGFN, content creation is the addition of signal and noise. Content curation is a signal amplifier 

 That is to say, content curation is arguably more valuable than content creation. It's less exciting, so people aren't as likely to do it for free, creating a supply shortage, increasing the possible market value. This of course assumes humans are needed for content curation at all. But someone could potentially make a living curating e.g. foot pictures more easily than by producing them. 

 Here is an example curation profile I discovered today @loveofnature 

 This is a really cool idea. I’d already thought about filtering by follows (WoT) but the addition of using AI to try and do a rough job to classification would probably be really good!