There aren't many topic-accounts on nostr actually.
Like it must be very difficult for a client to recommend categories. And there are almost invisible parentheses.
You have 'music' but then a lot of it actually '(bitcoin) music'.
You have 'memes' but really it's 'memes (about bitcoin)'.
Which obviously has a very very limited appeal.
(There are notable exceptions).
I try to post non nostr/bitcoin stuff (music, parkour, photography) but get pretty much 0 engagement lol. Will carry on doing so though
I think you sort of have to see nostr (right now) for what it is, and that is unfortunately a bitcointwitter clone. Other Topics (any other non-botcoin) are pretty much seen by a lot of users here as mere distraction, 'normie' conversation, it's glossed over on their way to the next bitcointwitter meme slop post lol. And nevermind actually finding a community for other stuff here. It's not here yet, it's not even facilitated for. It may never come here even. And it's unlikely to be any time in the near future.
Having said that, there are some people here who are so bored of the bitcointwitter slop that posting anything else will make you stand out.
I have no interest (or anything against) parkour. If I saw it on nostr tho I might be like 'wow, kinda cool. I hope he doesn't end the video by telling me the price of bitcoin' and be relieved if you did not.
That's the best you can hope for here imo lol
Well yes right now its a better version of bitcointwitter, but once it grows i think it has the potential to become more than that. A lot of people on nostr see the value in bringing in communities for other stuff but right now with the bullmarket in full force its understandable that bitcoin is the number one topic
Bringing more people here, who aren't into Bitcoin, is definitely the supreme way to handle this.
In the mean time, it would be great to have one client with a robust decentralized filtering system putting Bluesky's to shame. It could let everyone add tags to everyone's posts so I could add a "cryptocurrency" tag to every unlabeled post I see on the topic, and you could have a toggle that filters out everything tagged by a certain list of users with a certain tag.
I think you would have to automate this no??
Most things should be tagged bitcointwitterslop lol. And there are some people who want exactly that, so it would be useful to them too
But really you would perhaps need people to join in groups, like from a forum. And even then it's hard work. There was a huge influx when Matt Taibbi joined here briefly, and he brought a load of his followers. They pretty much all left. I don't think they found m/any other topics to engage with.
That was a while ago, it has improved ever so slightly then. But this still a one topic forum, really.
As the network grows there would need to be some automatic delegation of power aside from just you making your own list of people whose tags to trust.
At nostr's current size, a coupe dozen highly active users could tag most of the stuff as soon as it hits trending feeds or gets posted by a popular npub. And you could accrue a list of more than a couple dozen highly active users to trust tags from. And people who join later can use your list, and add to it, and then it starts getting big enough to need tools for managing that 🤙
Thats why I wish there were, easy for normies (me), plug and play bots. Nostr native ones, so they we don't have to rely on bridging to mastodon. My hope was always if you had enough topic bots you could eventually coax non-bitcoin commenting from bitcoiners and build from there
Yes, that would be useful, I've thought that too, I believe the mastodon equivalent to replicate is botsin.space (?) and custom feeds.
You have to try and break the bitcointwitter slop tourettes covertly lol.
I believe fiatjaf made a post about an 'easy' way to make bots. However it was beyond my understanding. It would have to be very very plug n play for me.
it’s so annoying
Bitcoin music ☠️
I have tried posting some of my brothers sound but no one has picked it up actually 😢
