Reddit is basically the evolution of BBS and imageboards. Both need specific categories with recursive proliferation. What my first iteration aims to do is simplify online forums by creating each community as its own dedicated relay. From there you just apply an algorithm (these can be transparent and hopefully rather simple and shareable for the near future) to sort posts by popularity.

Reddit has a closed-source model but it's easy to grasp what they're doing at the basic level. With nip-42 auth, lightning payment verification, and other features, these communities should be able to scale with transparent on-protocol consensus models.

You can apply algos to each relay as well as create global feeds of these relays with their own, likely similar algos.

Also, managing communities in this way sort of "does away" with the traditional follow list, as someone recently pointed out to me. With the right controls, you can maintain tight-knit communities which addresses another post you made recently. A lot of those productivity goals are in mind here.

#Flotilla is doing it right.

Simple forums can still be simple, methinks, but the old forums aren't Nostry enough either. We can do more with less

Instead of each relay being a forum- each relay is a topic on a broad network of "forums" (collections of topical relays)