Oddbean new post about login | logout There is a space for a new Nostr client that automatically groups follow's posts and replies into topics, maybe even on a chat interface. Every day new topics emerge and fade away. You can short-term join and leave topics by getting into their rooms. Dan would have become a topic. Halving another one.
Sounds like an opportunity for client side tags on notes that people could share as lists.
Yep, but global lists/labels are overrated. It's nicer to just do it on what your follows are talking about and then bring everybody else in the same topic to it.
Personally I would rather see manual tags done by humans, but I'd be interested in seeing the functionality that you envision.
Information flow is probably too fast for humans, even at today's scale.
Raw flow, yes. But our civilization is still 100% human driven. I'm hesitant to put algorithms to work making our decisions for us. I can see search tools that find potential notes, but the actual tagging I would want a human hand doing, not any kind of automatic system. I know that eventually these artificial neural networks will be smarter than us, but that's at least a few years off. Maybe that's just me.
Chiming in on this, I have always thought there could be value in aggregating tag data from every user and displaying the most relevant. I think a big problem with tagging is that users must remember to tag ahead of time. It's something you must do as you're making a post or reply. I think it's very robot-like behavior. There is two problems: 1) Tagging can equate to higher interaction, therefore more tags is essentially always better. This creates an endless well of tags by design. Expect lots of tags. The question is how to handle them. 2) Tagging shouldn't be dependent on time of posting. Not sure what else to say about it but that's my two cents.
Ad hoc communities? We could benefit from standing communities as well
Yes I like this. Similar to Telegram folders but for specific threads or topics. Speaking of following posts, a nip for "notify me of new posts in this thread or any thread below this message". Even if you add a "following" message you won't see any updates to that thread, unless someone replies.