That explanation puts it in a better context. Thank you. I agree discoverability is important and it’s good for people to have ways of finding a variety of topics they may be interested in. But I’ve seen some talk about specifically excluding bitcoin content and this sounded like it was in that vein of thought. Thanks for clarifying. 💜🤙
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Excluding btc or any content without user input sounds like mastodon or twitter.
If user wants to opt out of any topics, this is great and their preference & right.
The opportunity and power of #nostr is control, visibility, opt-in content, opt-in algos.
The aim is to improve choice for the user. If there is no perceived choice of content, this may continue turning off newbies.
Agreed 💜 Leaving users in charge of their experience is key.
I think a simple “I don’t care about” with a few pre-made filters like trump, Bitcoin, NFTs, NYT, etc during on-boarding to enable client side filters like below is a reasonable approach.
Keeping in mind just because someone may post about a topic like Bitcoin 1 in 20 posts, does that mean you shouldn’t follow them for their unrelated content? Filtering topic based content is more valuable at the content than author level - unless the author is strongly tied to a topic - like a Bitcoin Price bot or something.
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Great point. Keyword mute is on the bench cc #[5]
I agree with the idea of enabling user-controlled content filtering Anything suggested as an “I don’t care about” topic also suggests a particular slant for the app/network, especially if the suggestion is an already polarizing topic like Trump or NFTs. It’s a dangerous slope. If my onboarding process said “you can filter out content like ‘Trump’ or ‘Biden’” then I’m immediately going to assume the political/ideological leanings of the app creators and perhaps the network. I don’t think those kinds of suggestions should be made, but I do think the tools to filter them should be there, if that makes sense.
Yep. I don’t have a specific way to generate suggestions of what new users may want to see or filter. Typically noisy (by volume/content) or controversial are the topics I’d imagine make sense. However, even just a toggle to filter NSFW by default is a start - that could include 20 or so common explicit hashtags or words. The art will be a balance.
One way could just be a past 24 hour summary of popular/common words or hashtags based on the relays you connect to.
Another could be a guided tour on how easy it is to add a filter - like long-tap a hashtag, or highlight a word/phrase.
Maybe some kind of “see less off Y”. Maybe with randomness. Maybe this is where custom shareable filters and dynamic client evaluated views fit.
I do think Nostr has lost a lot of people just after onboarding due to global being Wild West and it being less easy to discover or port over who your current follow lists from elsewhere.