basic idea: users express interests in certain topics. when you create a topical post it only posts to people who are interested in that topic among your followers.
This will allow you to talk about niche interests without annoying people who follow you and are not interested in that topic.
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Are you reinventing hashtags?
Adding a hashtag wouldn’t filter it by default from people who are not interested in that post. Its a new kind and is a part of our new topic communities spec, where you will be able to post to open, unmoderated, reddit-style communities as well by including a title.
Are you doing something like reposts? It would make sense to wrap something in another event and apply a topic. NIP 32 would also do the trick (at the risk of not being able to find the referenced event)
no its a new thing
Also this wouldn’t work because the original post would still show up for clients who aren’t aware of the spec
Oh yeah, nip 32 wouldn't work, but a kind 18-like thing would (as long as you didn't publish the original note). I was thinking of this because NIP 29 `h` tags have this problem.
The problem is the Twitter clone model treating everyone like they're an influencer robot that has only one interest.
Whatever tag, wrapper, targeting mechanism you devise, if an app wants to show you every public post of someone you follow, they can.
if you're posting in public and I follow you regardless why wouldn't I want to see what you're posting? even if it's to "topic"
In the Follow model, that's what tends to happen yes.
No idea, if people *want* to see everything from all those Follows. I tend to think they do not.
I personally don't want to follow anyone tbh.
I just want to tune into specific communities when I want or need to.
Google circles 🙌
That would be interesting 🤙
it could be cool if each post were assigned to a channel based on its topic, so anyone interested could simply subscribe.
yes this is where interests come in. If you follow a topic community (like /r/bitcoin) we can infer you are interested in the bitcoin topic, so we could then show bitcoin-related microblogs from people you follow
this approach lets people keep following others without being bothered by off-topic posts 🤙
Finally, I can start talking about vintage mechanical keyboards I’ve always been so passionate about.
same
Sounds like tags.
For example
“Post—philosophy, epistemology”
“Text”
Sounds like reinventing hashtags.
If you do a post with a hashtag, your followers will still see it indiscriminately.
I understand that’s how it works now. But that concept would be the basic way to “fork” the feed in the manner described.
EX: I make posts on hashtags “music”, “philosophy”, “politics”, and “culture”. You (or some other hypothetical user) only cares for “politics” or “culture”, and so sets your feed to only show those hashtags and ignoring my other two tags.
An option to follow only a combination of npub+hashtag would work for me
oh great, my days of flooding your feed with yarn may be coming to an end 😭
How is it better than targeting posts to multiple literal Communities?
I need targeted publication:
- to multiple niches (communities)
- for any content type
And why this trend of coming up with "new" stuff in the dark and hyping it?
Just share the idea if you have it.
why are you trying to police the way I post things? my posting style is just who I am. I talk about things that I am working on. that's literally all I do on here.
I have long accepted the fact that our goals are just different than other clients, especially around communities.
we will just have to see which community ideas take off and which ones don't.
Sorry bro. Bad idea on my part to reply when I'm too frustrated and #dadstr tired.
Just wanted to find the Nip-22 + Nip-73 idea without having go and look in 5 threads 😜. Not your problem per se. But helps us not all ask the same question around the "how".
Btw: this idea has been brought up by nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl too if I'm not mistaken.
Literally ommenting on a topic
For copying the Twitter topic posts that works :Check:
And that's indeed a goal that defers from ours. Good luck!
So you post to unmoderated topics? And followers would see these cause they follow you but they can unsubscribe from the topic or jump into the topic to see all of it?
lots of different ways you can present it but yeah basically. the biggest thing is that when posting to topic communities you have some guarantees that only the people interested in that topic will end up seeing it.
This is just the microblogging portion of topic communities, we are also working on an unmoderated subreddit-style version of the spec with titles and top posts, etc.
we're leveraging nip22 and nip73 a lot for this one
How would you utilise this? I suppose you could click a button or move a slider when posting that would mean you'd only like it to be shown to individual that share the comman interest. Very cool concept though.
Twitter communities 🤔. Interesting.
Feeling hashtag vibes 😅
How is this different from subreddits?
great observation!
this will be a part of our subreddit spec, but theres a subtle difference:
you might not want to post a topical microblog to a subreddit. also subreddit posts have titles, etc. you will be able to create both types of posts simply by adding a title or not. The latter is posting to a group for all to see, the former is just for your followers.
still working through the UX on this, but they are subtly different things.
This is still a rough sketch from our last meeting though, things may change. This was just a first pass based on a long discussion.
These were originally separate ideas that we are trying to umbrella under the same spec, so we may simply this further.
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Slowly but surely we are moving to the same algorithmic standards we fled from
this isn’t an algorithm? its an option for users to post to more specific topics so that new people can find content that isn’t just bitcoin
This is how it starts and ends up in algorithms - the want to have better curated feeds.
I’m for it. Because nostr will give users control over the algos, unlike the platforms we fled from.
That would be amazing.
what would best describe this?
1. Hashtag-like, keyword based communities
2. A community is an immutable event with metadata like name
3. Same as 2 but PRE
it’s very common to feel overstimulated by social media.
I think it’s related to the scrolling/skimming effect.
I’m only following 8 or 9 people … and sometimes still get overwhelmed because there will be a large amount of posts - and the topics are often deep, intellectual/technical, emotionally heavy (ex: human rights, freedom, government corruption, resistance of certain groups to positive innovation).
So it might be helpful to channel some of those deeper, technical topics into a “subreddit”-like area … so you go there when you are seeking it out.
And to channel personal, casual, lighter topics into your own personal feed section.
