Subnostr

Nostr feels huge from this list, and vibrant! I find it fascinating that there is a higher level of engagement recorded here than what I typically see from clients.

Question :

How can clients leverage this to do the following :

1. Availability of all notes like you do ?

2. Engagement based on comments, likes like you do ?

3. No of followers - if I understood from premier.net this is based on cache - I have a few sub-questions :

a) Do you query each relay and pile up on the delta of each repetitive query on the same relay ?

b) How often do you query it?

c) I understood from your conversation with fiatjaf that this includes the bots but not spammy bots ? Or it will be harder to distinguish them ?

Wishlist :

for the someday when you are free and board :

1. Trending topics (I’ve seen Jap devs build this and it’s awesome too, just need to fine tune the keywords to remove repetitive stuff )

2. Search via a person’s profile - for example if I want to go over to Jack’s profile and search for Tidal instead of a global search

Suggestion :

To partner up with client devs so that clients can have more bandwidth getting a good client up, and tool devs can have access to users, using the tools. There are many ways to monetise but leaving to both your genius minds

brugeman 2y ago

Thank you for lot's of good questions.

Clients can use the API, but it's more geared towards discovery and aggregation.

1. Availability of notes should be solved at the nostr protocol level, there are various approaches developed, I'm sure it will be solved without additional APIs.

2. Discovery of popular content and people based on good engagement metrics is one of the goals of this API, clients can use it to improve onboarding, to surface better content faster, to make things work faster and more accurately.

3. I'm not sure how primal.net team handles this, our service collects all data from all relays in real time and then aggregates it, follower counts and other metrics are the product of that process. We collect all the data, including low-quality profiles/posts (mostly bots), and we actually internally have two numbers: 1. high-quality follower/reply/like/etc count and 2. the total count. Right now we show the total everywhere, but eventually clients and users might prefer the high-quality option - it will probably be much less noisy and spammy.

Wishlist:

1. Trending topics is a very interesting thing, if there are LLM experts out there willing to help me build it - I'd be very grateful.

2. More advanced search options are coming after some infrastructure updates - the current nostr.band frontend is getting slower by the day.

Your suggestion is spot-on, the goal of this API is to help devs build clients that provide more value to users.

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pam 2y ago

This is a great explanation - thanks #[0] for always being very patient at explaining 💜🫂

I believe client devs can reduce resource overload by teaming up with tool devs who specialize in the tools users need, allowing clients to focus on building a great platform. It helps to first build a platform and tools users like before monetizing.

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