There is nothing that prevents #nostr relays from developing algorithms that favor certain content, or that recognize the preferences of their users and forward favored content to them. Nothing prevents a relay from sending it's own messages to users with recommendations for notes, users, and/or other relays. I think it's just a matter of time before that kind of stuff happens.

Relays can also inhibit certain users and certain topics. Again, this is just a matter of time.

The difference is that the walls of the walled garden are not prisons. Any #nostr user can step outside one walled garden into another, or into the unwalled stream of free information.

From: tekne<-cameri at 07/17 10:47

> Respectfully, this is a cope. There will always be a vast majority of people that never even desire to say something outside of the acceptable discourse (Overton Window).

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> Walled Gardens have more engagement because they use algorithms to surface content that they know the user will find interesting.

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> There is no reason Nostr can’t do this other than the culture of Nostr being ignorant and discouraging good user experience.

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