I've been thinking about what a producer/consumer metric would look like. probably something like a normal distribution with outliers on the producer side seen as influencers and viewed with caution, and the other extreme would be lurkers who don't create any events and are sent to the nostr graveyard
Discussion
Been following your ponderings the last few days so I'm just curious.. are you thinking like in terms of creating some sort of indicator to act as a signal about a person's general behaviors?
yes, I would like to be able to quickly assess where a profile lands on that spectrum, how it changes over time, graphs to visualize how different profiles compare, etc.
besides just passively collecting this sort of data, I want clients to offer tools that cater to a user's desire to operate as a consumer, producer, or somewhere in between as they see fit
I'm currently developing a client that does just that. it encourages the productive side by loading new notes only when I post something. that's just one example of how a client can bias towards a particular mode of operation
I love that you're exploring areas of varying incentives. Technology often takes a disproportionate amount of blame for problems that are more human related. Obviously, there's a snowball effect in all of that, but it's hard for the individual to acknowledge & shift without guidance or some "thing" that triggers insight.
Bingo!