nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 what do you think about tags?
I find myself seeking for attention when writing notes by hooking into the right channels. I actively force myself to not attach many tags believing that the content should speak for itself.
Also I find my feed uninteresting if there are a lot of notes with many tags.
Me too. I never liked them.
However it makes more sense to use them here than on Twitter, given that we don't have a central place with fulltext search and indexing tags is easy for all relays. However they must be used wisely, which is not how Twitter teached people to use them.
Is the intention to steer more towards notes and less towards other stuff?
Feels like there is a lot of thought spent specifically on the nuances of Twitter clone backends.
A lot of the clients merely copy the formulaic design and layout of Twitter.
Increasingly the community is interesting but the tech differentiation at times fades into a soup of Not-Twitter,-Twitter.
Do we really need to look backwards?
I understand the “if it works, it works” argument, but if it truly works why recreate it in the first place?
Would be great to see true diversity, and a protocol that is simple enough and light enough to support that.
The protocol should not wear jewellery.
Using tag indexes to easier pre-signal channels for notes makes sense. But it‘s also a bit schizophrenic, because it‘s harder to leave the beaten paths. And that‘s quite precisely „mainstream“.
I would guess that „#zapathon“ is not very useful for indexing. Date parts and pub keys probably build more useful pages.
On the other hand when I search Damus universe for a tag like „#ruby“, it could return much faster when the path is beaten.
Is nostr about feed or search? At least for me it‘s mostly feed (now).
have never used tags before nostr. tags fell off in 2010 & are very cringey. although, i will say tiktok has revived them in a sense (#fyp). nostr is completely different though. i find tags like #tunestr on here endearing and find myself always using it.
if people use tags on nostr, it’s more as a categorization tool than a tool for clout. which was the whole point of tags in the first place before it got muddled with spam lovers.
What about emojis? It‘s not the same argument as with tags, but I guess people also use them to search for fast attention.
The good side: you can transport emotions, e.g. to take away the edge off serious content.
The bad side: you have the power to bind attention with pictures.
