Would be cool if we could set on our profiles a list of topics we usually post about. Then for each post we could set to which topics it belongs. Then people could decide to follow just certain topics of a profile instead of the entire profile.
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Setting topics per post manually is the problem. Even with best intentions people forget or spam
If the client UI makes it easy and clear to set a topic, those people who care about posting high signal content to their diverse audiences will definitely not forget - and those are only the people really worth following anyways. Don't care if someone abuses it to spam - I would simply unfollow them.
You’d have to more many people. This would get abused for sure.
But yeah some clients could add tagging like snort used to have.
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Not sure if I get your point. Why would I have to mute many people? You think they would setup a topic "Programming" on their profile, but then post politics all the time and tag it either as "all" or "programming" and then I would get to see their politics takes even though I only followed their programming topic?
Agreed. A problem I think nostr shares with other "social" platforms is that you can't follow someone without seeing everything they post. For some people, that's fine and awesome but sometimes I want to follow someone for their posts about certain topics (eg Minecraft, football) and not others (eg Politics, bitcoin).
I think there's room here for some form of client-side filtering rather than something at the relay level. A simple filter could be based on hashtags. Something more advanced might use a LLM to detect the topic which comes closer to solving both the "sender didn't set a topic" and "spam post isn't related to the stated topic" problems.