That is very impressive if so 👀👀 

 I don't want to be mean by mentioning it again and again but it is the most common complaint about nostr. And it sort of feels like that problem is never really taken seriously. 

Not many clients has really thought about catering to another demographic besides bitcointwitter expats. Nos social and voyage might be the only examples I know of.

The user recommendations at onboarding is probably a bigger problem than most think it is lol. imo imo

Imagine having this 'no bitcoin chat' relay set up as a choice at onboarding. You're timeline might be slow, but that is actually preferable for a lot of people to a barrage of bitcoinisms. 

 Respond to other people then. There is no algo to push you. Do the work yourself 

 This is a common objection and I covered it here. I don't think this reaponse is very useful. Just like the 'fillow more people' response. You're assuming the problem is with just not finding the content and interactions, but that it exists? I disagree.

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 You follow 400 people and expect to have the interactions with thousands? How is that even possible without algo.
You are delusional.
Search by # and follow people that you have common interest in or reply to interesting posts. 
If you followed thousands and can’t find anything interesting, then this is not for you. Go back to TWTR. 

 I never said I expect to have interaction with thousands. No idea where you got that from lol.

Anyway I've covered these common responses / points in the longform note lol. 

It's also not about me. This is the most common nostr complaint, it's not just people aren't finding their interests present here (and that is not just a matter of them not looking hard enough). They may find some posts here and there, they also want meaningful interaction around that.

(There are some notable exceptions. Meshtastic, permaculture and Siamstr.)

But the impression a lot of people get is that this is a bitcoin chatroom, their interests aren't currently here (in any meaningful way) and it's not likely to be here soon. Their feed is full of bitcointwitter chat. And yes they leave, back to twitter, or matrix, Reddit etc etc.

And some people like me aren't just not nostr-only. I do go on twitter for Other Stuff.


 

 TLDR;

#nostr is a bitcoin meet up - @rabble

 📠😬

https://youtu.be/XUsk7cqZyKU 

 You can experiment with this now by adding Bitcoin and other keywords to a mute keyword list in certain apps. I know Damus offers this and I believe as a reference app Amethyst likely has an option. 

I would be curious to hear about your or anyone else’s experience trying this out. 
Does it solve the problem? If not what else is missing, needed etc. feel free to dm me with the results. 

 Those #othertopics community relays are coming 💪  

 It's possible. I think things are somewhat different to when twitter /Facebook first emerged tho. There's been a lot of fragmentation into fairly rigid clusters, especially with the growing interest in social moving to less publicly open  private groups.  It's arguably a different scenario to when twitter emerged. There's also social media fatigue (or whatever you want to call it) as a factor now. 

People looking at early twitter probably saw how it could very easily draw people in, how subcultures can start forming and flowing there. Lots more options now. Lots more of a sense of balkanised groups. Or something?

I still think it's possible (and has actually already happened to some extent with Meshtastic, permaculture, siamstr.) it's just perhaps not the same circumstances  

 Ah there's a lot to block lol, slogans and price chat, 'memes' etc etc I imagine it's quite difficult. Maybe one day there will be some sort of intelligent filtering of this. I imagine people would like some exceptions like, there are some people who post interesting bitcoin dev stuff, so maybe it's not best as a relay thing a anyway 🤔 I dont know lol 

 @7fqx I think relay.tools only lists relays they host at nostr1.com. It’d be more useful a directory if there were outside relays listed as well.