this site is insanely good. one of the top onboarding priorities at damus is to get starter packs working like this
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Definitely solid ui. Would you just plug into existing profile lists for this? Or create custom ones?
The iOS applet (or whatever theyβre called) is incredible for that first, low-friction βmagic moment.β
To me that is just overwhelming on the amount of choices.. but i guess that is a good thing as well. Being able to list them by popularity helps with that I guess, but would also just amplify the big ones, leading to centralized communities? I haven't really tried bluesky much and don't care to from what I have seen.
I don't get it. They are like preset groups of people to follow?
most people leave on nostr because they can't find their community
True, not everyone is as lucky as me
my community found me, in the depths of global, a light shined bright n brought me out of darkness
#Plebchain nostr:npub1tvqc82mv8cezhax5r34n4muc2c4pgjz8kaye2smj032nngg52clq0rkrq4 nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s
True, the only subjects are Bitcoin and development of app. The rest are almost 0.
I don't mean to say it's a dumb idea. Rather I didn't quite understand what a 'starter pack' is.
Makes sense to me.
So glad Iβve never tried bluesky, after looking at the categories, there is one for memes and over a dozen porn categories and probably half dozen Democratic Party categories but I didnβt see any freedom, liberty, anarchy categoriesβ¦ seems like an echo chamber over there
can we at least check if normies are even able to learn that these things exist?
we can display these packs right when you open up damus for the first time
This Nostr site has a similar layout:
Seems like popularity contest gatekeeping to me, where the rich get richer and early adopters get overly prioritized. I suppose it could maybe be paired with a provably random generator for display order, drawing seed from a livestream of animals at the public zoo, but that has questions of definition(who is 'music') quickly becomes complex enough to make me skeptical of tradeoffs with engineering hubris. (Not to mention remote control cheetahs). I lean heavily toward principle of not chasing legacy ideals, such as 'more is always better' and 'we must sustain growth obligations'.
Blueskyπ