Oddbean

🔍 #AskNostr 🔍 For discovery of new people to follow, is there a ‘people you might like’ DVM / client feature out there? Looking for something that searches for the most followed npubs by people you already follow (only showing people you don’t already follow).

You could probably get something like this using Coracle.social custom feeds. nostr:nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgspr3mhxue69uhksmmyd33x7epwvdhhyctrd3jjuar0dak8xtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxnhwden5te0wpuhyctdd9jzuenfv96x5ctx9e3k7mf0ss9zgs any ideas for this? Instinctively, I would do a filter with the base feed type of "People," and just choose "Network" with all other authors deselected. You can further narrow them down by topics you are interested in, if you like, by adding another filter parameter. Now, this isn't going to display a list of npubs. Instead it's going to give you a feed of posts from only npubs that the people you follow are also following, but without any of your current followers' posts showing up. The higher the web-of-trust score for those whose posts you are seeing, the more of the npubs you follow who have also followed them, and have not muted them.

There is also a min_wot filter you can use if you go to advanced mode, but it requires reading the spec. Also, a way to hack the feed is to add a kinds filter for kind 0, which will show profiles instead of notes, although it will sort results by most recent profile edit.

Thanks, tried it here: https://coracle.social/naddr1qqgnqd3k8qurjdeexvcnjwfhxqenwwqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgmwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3e8qmr9vfejucm0d5hsygyvgv9a4twp5gpwfhg3epkgy4rtkyydw40rwjmerqvp75emjn339cpsgqqq0jfqhsz7f2 Is there anything I can add to it to exclude my follows?

It sort of works (maybe the best I can do for now) but doesn’t exclude people I already follow. I wanted it to replicate the feature on other social apps that suggest users to follow within your network/social graph. Feels like we’re missing suggested users on a lot of apps that might improve discoverability. The global ‘trending’ use and post feeds of apps like Primal could be offputting to non-bitcoiners. I’d expect new users to communities like siamstr, artstr, etc. would like to find other people in that community rather than Bitcoin/Nostr maxis. https://image.nostr.build/a2b122e96058c9c3864643b9ec57d2ad8a030054aedad56aac408da93fdb8bec.jpg

Totally, and I really like the feed you've made, because it sort of actually does that! I'm not able to reproduce the problem of existing follows getting in there though. I even double checked the code, and "network" doesn't include your follows. Maybe send a screenshot?

Ah, think this may be a bug with Coracle and Nostore 🤔 It’s not loading my follows on my profile either. Follows load and custom feed works fine when logged in with npub or extension on desktop browser extension. https://image.nostr.build/8f34fb9ff07aec611b69e42260e63eec6925124eceebc80cb7bb7155c1671294.jpg

Jotted down your request https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues/1302 In my view, algos, in whatever shape/technical solution they take, should be an open and competitive market. Opt-in algorithm support will come to damus at some point in the future. For new, maybe you can explore DVMs in nostrudel, amethyst, coracle etc.

Not what I’m looking for. I think something similar to a ‘People you may know’ list like on Facebook, or suggested follows on Twitter. I imagine that’s how they work with a weighting to your more recent follows.