I’ve had my current account for awhile now and have plenty of good people I’m following so my feeds on Nostr are always active and interesting.

However, for some YouTube videos I was making I wanted to revisit the new user experience with Nostr (on Damus) and it feels confusing to arrive and not have any help getting connected to any active/interesting accounts. How should a new Nostr user find reasonable accounts to follow?

I’ve seen websites that try to help with this like Nostr.band and Nostr.directory, but it’s too many steps to need the alby extension (and a desktop browser?). I’d really love to see in-app experiences to help a new user get connected to active/interesting accounts.

Do any Nostr apps already do this? Who has an example of a good UX for onboarding/following new users?

I recognize the centrazling nature of discovery here, but I also wonder if long-term the discovery data could/should be available as notes stored on relays with a pluggable architecture for the algorithms. Maybe better to start centralized to simplify since any given app can swap out or support swappable later?

I’m interested to hear peoples’ thoughts on this topic.