I wonder how a better popular posts feed could be made and how feasible it is 🤔

I think it should have a few factors. So eg instagram's average post Follower count/Likes is between 3-5%. (Which is how you can often tell who has paid followers). I'm not sure what it is on nostr (maybe further complicated here with all those bot follows lol).

But let's just add that as one factor amongst others. Say eg an account with 20k follows on here has a post with 20 likes. That is considered average and unremarkable. (Likes as read receipts, and potentially even some zaps). But an account with 100 followers getting 10 likes is considered popular (again just as one weighing factor of popular/trending).
Obviously there is the issue with bot likes and gaming which would need to be taken into account. Reposts number is probably also important. Zaps too.

I think extra weight could be given to likes, reposts and zaps from accounts not following the original note (again taking account for gaming the system and bots).

And there are some instances where posts have sparked a lively conversation and debate. These posts sometimes have zero likes or zaps, but dozens of replies. Maybe there could be something that detects paragraph replies with proper sentences lol, to avoid showing good mornings and hellthreads and gaming the system.

🤔🤔🤔maybe this is more a DVM for interesting notes rather than popular notes(?)

But yeah it's an interesting problem I hope someone is working on this. Bringing interesting notes to the surface. Rather than the same old faces.

What other ways can this be done? Is anyone actually working on this? #asknostr