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Make it easier to find.

The people who produce and enjoy that sort of stuff usually aren't following the Very Big Accounts (they don't know or care WHO those people are, or they simply find them irritating) and they often don't zap or boost, they just *like* or reply.

Also, their replies are often nested, which makes them irrelevant to trending algos.
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Valentino Giudice 1y ago

> they often don't zap or boost, they just *like* or reply.

That's not necessarily an issue.

I'm skeptical of the idea that monetary incentives work better than these kinds of social incentive, which are part of what social media are for.

Consider Reddit and Hive. Hive (one of the few with this name) is a blockchain used for social networking which gives people monetary incentives. Reddit only gives you Reddit karma.

While Reddit has become worse for different reasons, I think one reason Reddit was better than Hive is precisely the fact that posts were not made for monetary incentives.

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Laeserin 1y ago

The problem is that Nostr trending lists and algos generally focus on counting zaps and boosts.

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Valentino Giudice 1y ago

It's hard to design a trending algorithm because likes can be faked.

Monetary transactions can also be done to oneself trough fake accounts, of course, but I guess they are considered to be more reliable.

A cleverer solution is needed.

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Valentino Giudice 1y ago

Obviously a cool aspect of Nostr is the fact that anyone can build apps on it, so it's absolutely possible that someone will figure it out.