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Ivan | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +7 
 Doesn't help that some Nostr clients all recommend those big accounts to follow for new accounts as well. Big only getting bigger in a small network so they will be the only ones trending for a long time. I use nostr.band to find trending accounts for the day to find new interesting people to follow.
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ksenia | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Thanks for the idea, otherwise no chance to find new people by interest 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Ivan | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You are welcome.  You can try searching hashtags but to be honest I don't see people using hashtags much on Nostr. Also search function in Nostr is work in progress. So it is not the easiest task to find people with the same interests. One hashtag people do use is #asknostr . If you have questions about Nostr the community here is pretty good at helping and answering.
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ksenia | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Appreciate so much 🙌🏻❤️
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Cameri | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Perpetuates Bitcoin/Nostr topics
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TheGuySwann | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Well there's a circular bootstrapping problem there. Every social network has always done this in the past with following the creators and early popular accounts, which obviously results in them having comparatively huge reach after the network is established.

So the trade off is; are we going to be annoyed with amplifying early accounts, or are we going to let people join and not recommend the active accounts with lots of engagement, and instead leave them to find active users by scrolling through global? I think the latter ends up with a lot more confused/frustrated users 😆 

The best option would obviously be to recommend people for a particular topic or community the user is interested in, but that won't really be a meaningful option until the network grows enough for it to have numerous, separate active communities. Which means were stuck where we are until then... It's just not an easy problem. 

"there are no solutions, only trade offs" – Thomas Sowell 🫡
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StackSats | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Is engagement compared to followers instead of flat engagement a feasible trending metric?
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Hans Karlsborn | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 A problem with Nostr is that so much of the content consists of ”zapp, zappitizap, zappathon, zappstsatic, etc” if you know what I mean. Tiresome.
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bitcoinsandy | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It’s a phase, exciting when you discover it and it also builds out the lightning network effect by using alot
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Hans Karlsborn | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 But when I started using Nostr 9 months ago, the Lightning Network had a liquidity of 5500 Btc and it’s now at 4700 Btc.
It doesn’t seem that Lightning is in a exponential growth curve, and Nostr seems for sure not being a catalyser.🤷
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bitcoinsandy | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Ok you win 😂 however we need to keep using as much as possible as it is building its use case here
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Ivan | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Agreed also at this stage we are in even trending topics instead of top posts won't be much useful either but in the future it will be the best route, to show trending topics. Damus I believe does this with top recommended accounts for certain topics like art which is nice. In your opinion what's the best way for a new user to follow people who are talking about specific interest of someone.

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