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Biggest complaints:

- Bitcoin echo chamber / not enough variety of content

- Difficult to use (my guess is these people have only tried it once 8 months ago lol..)

- Feeds not busy enough

- Toxic to web 3

My thoughts:

I bet we can solve a lot of these complaints just by asking people to select some topics to follow in onboarding and doing away with global entirely, or make it an optional thing. It seems global is responsible for turning people off because they see a bunch of spam / too much bitcoin content and or some other crap.

Topics solves some of this - they will see more focused content.

Better navigation UX can help - like browsing hashtags (see primal).

The network effects thing IS a challenge. Have to have users to create content and have to have content to attract users. Lists could help here. Even something as suggesting a list of RSS feeds that post on Tech news for example would be helpful. We already have RSS feeds for all sorts of stuff but they are difficult to surface.

Engaging with non-bitcoin content can help too (if you find it interesting, probably don’t want to force it).

Other than that I am not sure how to get more non-bitcoin users here other than creating a “safe space” for them where they don’t see that type of content at all. Whether that’s a bitcoin-free relay or a client that specifically mutes bitcoin terms via a pre-defined (user can still modify) mute list, or something else I can’t think of atm. nostr:note1j5cx3j3h7prnr46yyfa4akllsjach4qxhnzu0tu4pcgh3afcj0qs5rd0w8

Whether or not global is a default on/off I think it is critical for freedom of speech and emergencies that global can always be enabled.

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I keep my global feed, extremely filtered, but if there was a national emergency, I would absolutely be flipping those switches on

Come to think of it, it would be really great to eventually have a Geo fenced global feed optio

so you could see real time updates in your area in an emergency especially. With the ability to opt out of sharing that kind of data of course.

Maybe it’s not really needed with hashtags, but could be interesting

It’s hard to do right now as there is not much geo-specific content right now.

Yeah, seems like a cool feature for the future of nostr

I’d really like to see social med that can help people solidify friendships and relationships in real life