A lot newcomers have spoke about having difficulty finding new people to follow with similar interests beyond bitcoin and typical Nostr talk. There are solutions that exist to do this, but there’s resistance to implementing them because using algorithms violates user freedom according to some people. The onboarding process also isn’t straightforward. Most people have to find a tutorial online in order to set up their an npub and wallet.
These things negatively affect the user experience and are barriers to the platform growing. I know these things take time to develop. I am not a dev, so I am complaining about things that I can’t fix and requesting people to do free labor for my convenience, which is annoying. On the other hand, if you are building a platform, then you should care about user feedback.
I think onboarding onto primal is a good fix for now while the other clients improve.
As for algos, as long as you can choose if you want one or not and you can pick between multiple, then it's fine. I'm curious if there's any actual devs blocking this, or if it's just a fear.
Just a fear, which still essentially creates a barrier.
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