For me it's the mechanisms here that have cemented to a certain extent the taste makers, incentivised appealing to these accounts for visibility to a certain extent - in their replies and boosts. The recommended users, the 'trending' lists etc. Regurgitating or even just copying bitcointwitter talking points and 'memes' is somewhat (unintentionally?) rewarded.

Obviously, you can just post whatever you like and not play along, you may find your experience is more like posting into a void, or an unread (micro)blog. Someone with a niche interest might post, they may get some interaction. I don't think people are ignoring or discouraging this, but they'll probably find they're not finding a vibrant community around many/any other topics, not getting a vibrant conversation on other topics, and feel somewhat compelled to return to the safe bets of bitcoin 'memes' and slogans, being reply guys to large follower accounts.

I think an alternative trending algo which takes into account follower numbers as a percentage for likes. Eg a 50k follower account with 70 likes should'nt be 'trending', but a 400 follower account with 20 likes could be... Something like this as a factor thrown into the mix. As well as a proper forum/topic -follow clients, rather than the twitter clone clients, could help this situation. Maybe.

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 Liking this idea of alternative trending algo that boosts signal based on %s 

 We've been recommending such algos, for at least a year, already. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 

 It's a classic chicken and egg problem, and it's very hard to solve. I'm all for experimenting with new and different algos, but it probably won't move the needle as much as time will.  

 Definitely think time is needed. I think a tweaking of the mechanisms (or meta or whatever you want to call it) could help slightly and increasingly so over time. 

 I don't think you can leave the client architecture as-is, without it getting steadily worse.

Everyone's follow lists are becoming more and more concentrated because the bifurcation in numbers of followers has reached absurd levels, due to the heavy onboarding concentration to Primal.

People used to onboard to different clients, which each had its own discovery method. Now, it's like a funnel. 

 Is primal the most used onboarding client? I imagine it is up there. I wish they would even add some other options to their sidebar panel, something like 'hashtag discovery', even nostrband's daily trending users list is more interesting and useful than what is on offer now. No idea how hard this is to implement tho lol? #primal 

 It's not hard. It's just not wanted. Software design is about making choices, and they have made other choices.