Oddbean new post about login | logout Yes, I thought about it, but you're going to put up with Bitcoin right now. There's no way around it unless we somehow bring the content in automatically, e.g., the aforementioned bots/mirrors.
What if existing users had a section where they could list (or pick off a list) certain interests. People could scroll through that list to find people who like spelunking for example and get a list of spelunking enthusiasts that they could follow.
From my parent note: Stuff like asking people to pick tags when they create the account and whatnot, is not useful *yet* because the content simply does not exist. What's the point of me picking a bunch of tags that deeply interest me like "linguistics", "Catalonia", "seafood", "knives"... if there's nothing or nearly nothing about any of them -- yet? In the future, yes. But right now it's not worth wasting time on this.
I think clients like satellite .earth and Nostrudel etc, could be working within the realms of this problem. The reddit-style / topic focus rather than twitter-feed following account focus also potentially works. Following topics rather than people. No big names needed. Obviously you still need to attract people to talk about topics, but seems more plausible(?)