One thing I'll say in defense of algorithms is the "who to follow" algorithm on twitter is really good for finding ppl who you want to talk to. If there was some way to make that for nostr but unbiased/client hosted/decentralized I think that would actually give nostr an edge over the fedi in a significant way.
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#[5] is this possibility w Nostr?
Idk how progress is going, but Elon says the whole algorithm will be open sourced eventually. Someone will probably port it over.
"The people you follow liked/ zapped/ renoted the notes of these people the most"
That’d be good actually, but I also find new follows through connections I make organically. Maybe an AI thing that analyses that and the global feed?
Yeah, you could also find people by looking at who also follows the people you follow, and then of those people look at who they follow that you don't already.
I think it's possible with what already exists in nostr, but might require a lot of processing power.
I guess that’s part of the “decentralised” bit.
Yeah, everything in computers is way more efficient when you can have 1 central authority managing the calculation of things then storing the results vs a bunch of individuals doing it themselves.
On the other hand decentralization prevents someone from secretly censoring or altering things.