You keep saying "producing what they want to see" and I feel that that's inaccurate, or at least very incomplete.
I like boobs and naked chicks as much as the next guy, but I will mute accounts that aren't SFW as I use nostr in general and this npub in particular in a very specific way. I love memes, but if someone spams my timeline with low-quality memes I'll simply mute.
I might also be interested in German content, for example, but I don't like mixing English and German too much, and most of my followers don't gain anything if I repost German stuff. So I don't follow German stuff with this npub, even though the people might be "producing what I want to see".
Excuse the lengthy reply, but I feel like this stuff is important.
TikTok has perfected the art of "producing stuff that you will like to see" and we don't want that, do we? It's using the "what you want to see" metric in a very shallow, fast-food kind of way.
"You wouldn't zap a car crash" someone very wise once told me 😉.
Thank you again for that perfect example of the difference between paying attention to something and valuing something.
interesting, so it is not just what you want to see, but also what you know others want you to see by proxy, i.e. you're applying flyers to your timeline to ensure the downstream is focused. are those filter settings app specific or tied to the private keys? I'm assuming the prior?
i guess unlike X you could easily create some alter ego npubs with various filter settings so you can also have a look at the world unadulterated. any apps that support this that you're aware of? could these be spawned from the same root private key like bitcoin derivation paths? would tieing filter settings meta data to an account also necessitate them being public?
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