Oddbean

I was playing around with ranking your contacts by mood. The idea behind this is being able to sort your feed by how someone's notes make you feel. The user assigns internal rankings to each person they interact with. The rankings are just mood indicators: 1. Informative - high signal. 2. Positive - I generally feel good about the notes from this person 3. Neutral - I'm in different to what they say, they tend to post neutral content that does not influence me emotionally. 4. Negative - this person makes me feel crappy sometimes or often, but I follow them because they occasionally say things I value or find interesting / makes me think. Then you could rank your feed based on how you would like to feel. If you wish to over time feel more positive, you could select only to show positive npub notes. That doesn't guarantee that everything you see is going to be happy, but it should TREND the mood towards positive. Or if you wish to see only informative high signal content, perhaps you set your feed to that and only see high signal notes. Again, you will see other types of notes there, but it will trend towards highest signal. This could also be expanded to other types of indicators such as "responds often" for example, so you can interact with people who actually respond. The benefit over just a followed set of people is being able to toggle signal for the day, or relaxing your criteria to include everyone. UX: you have a hold+drag slider that selects the mood for that user. This is only visible to you (unless you share a screenshot lol). This makes it easy to categorize npubs (assuming you don't misclick into their profile) - to be tested. Right now this is just an exploration and an idea. I'm putting it out there to see what people think of it. Originally I was thinking about this from the WoT perspective, but then realized that probably wouldn't work. https://void.cat/d/R6gqKzKNb4nf69XhtEpvPd.webp

I love this concept. Mood/activities/thoughts vary widely from day to day, morning to evening, whatever. Quick slide on lunch break for some humor & memes, learning time in the evening, or whatever. It'd be a great advancement over letting content dictate how you feel.

Yeah they do. This is why I think it would be helpful to make the ranking as easy as possible so you can adjust it often, or decide not to touch it since you know how that person generally makes you feel over time. For example, I associate nothing but positivity with Dawn, so if I saw Dawn get grumpy here and there, I would probably not adjust it. But if Dawn goes on a week-long spiral of outbursts, then I can easily adjust it 🤣

😂 I would totally understand! You could even have setting for individuals & like a main control that pulls from that to make feed adjustment quick & easy too. That may be a bit far out I could see a client being built just around mood being pretty popular

I was thinking about this earlier today. Social media is just different now with recommendation technology and it made me wonder how there needs to be a stronger feedback cycle with creators and viewers, because at the end of the day it really comes down to the ability to convert and/or the ability to draw attention. This idea of yours would be awesome in a place like Pinterest. The founder likes to work on the intersection of health and media https://m.primal.net/IWkQ.png

I am not sure what you mean. Let me restate clearly, maybe that helps: 1. User can set and adjust the mood as often as they like 2. You can sort your feed to show above or below a threshold mood. Example: Show me all notes from npubs who make me feel neutral and above. Or.. show me only notes from npubs who I consider high signal. 3. Everyone starts at neutral so you don't need to do a lot of work and just tweak the ones you like or as you come across over time. I suppose you could do much of the same with lists, but then you have to constantly create and maintain lists which seems like a lot more work than tweaking some ratings by holding and sliding an icon.