Nobody is picking anything for the person. We just present some general interest topics: food, travel, games, movies, etc etc… and if a note mentions a word that might indicate it belongs to one of those categories, it gets shown under a general interest topic and people can follow / unfollow it just like they can with hashtags on snort
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There has to be a balance. Iris for example shows users to follow and absolutely 0 content in global unless you follow people. That doesn’t really contribute to user discovery and hinders the onboarding.
A list of topics to follow might be nice. But on damus for example search is pretty bad and there’s no way to follow hashtags. The app is awesome but that needs to be addressed too. Most people won’t care to have 3 different clients for different things.
Maybe we don’t even suggest keywords, we could let people enter time. That’s similar to what AppleNews is doing. As opposed to limiting you to some topics you can basically create your own (ex: Nostr) and are able to access related news items in a single click.
Ahh yea that’s good, finding content based on topics could be useful, should add a way users can implement their own topics as well too
I can see it as tabs you can swipe between.