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What do you think would make nostr search engine more useful and help with diversification, on top of the primitive keyword search?

fireslug 2y ago

That’s an interesting question. From a ultimatum perspective I’d say having ways to organize post topics into communities would be helpful for enduring social connection. Hashtags help, but an actual group would be better after a certain point. I don’t know enough about search functions to have any suggestions about that.

Realizing I’m so algorithm trained that I don’t know how you operate w/o it. I.e. friend suggestions etc.

Back in the day of Usenet news, it was effectively a group. Each group/channel became its own ecosystem. People surfed across them as like changing channels.

There was generally a weekly automated post of group basics - culture/rules, Admins, faq, how tos etc.

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brugeman 2y ago

Thank you for your perspective.

On nostr there are also relays, many people wish relays to become the topical hubs. Problem is that clients don't allow users to choose where the posted note is published, which means it's distributed to some semi-random selection of relays w/o any consideration of the relays' rules. And relays don't have good tools to moderate/curate the notes they receive.

As for the groups - if a group is open then it's equivalent to a hashtag. If it's closed then... you kind of get the same question of 'how to moderate this thing', it needs to be supported at the protocol level, and there should be admins willing to do that.

I'm excited about lists (NIP-51), and emerging apps like listr.lol. I'd say you could create custom lists and then let people subscribe to them (when that's supported on the clients), this way people would create custom lists of profiles and clients could suggest the most popular lists for new users. This seems like the simplest way to enable crowd-sourced creation of custom feeds without centralization, algorithm, or huge resource requirements.