Oddbean

I love DVMs, but I increasingly feel like they're a bug-fix for improperly-conceived interfaces. We should be following people we encountered in a natural way, because they share our interests (but not necessarily our opinions). And then the SM feed becomes the interactions of those people. We need to turn the Twitter idea inside-out.

This also gets rid of the #NostrElite dynamic, and creates true elites who are known for being topic experts or whatnot, within their particular sphere. That requires PoW and opens them up to competition.

Yup, I'm coming to a very similar realization. Putting common interests first leads to group chats / communities as a natural solution. Instead of filtering out those interest from a public feed that has every fart anyone makes about anything. But: 1. Often you want to share a thought or question with more than one community since interests and topics tend to overlap. This is the huuuuge opportunity current solutions miss and something Nostr is architecturally built for. 2. Big Tech communities don't have free market forces driving the conditions and costs for accessing those communities. So they can't allow this.

"Following someone" in the community first approach would be more like: - putting them on a NOT SPAM list - adding them to a list for later retrieval / contact / use Not, show me everything these person do on my homescreen

I write a lot about ethics and morality and so many people literally can't handle that, emotionally, and my home feed quickly turns into a gigantic meltdown. If we had a philosophy community, it'd be better.