Wait til you see the suggested hashtags on Damus. No wonder people think Nostr is dead.
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I think the trending hashtags in Damus should just be removed until it can be more useful
Which is probably never.
Curious why those aren't useful hashtags as I've used and searched most of them 🤔🤷‍♀️ (newbie question, not trolling)
They never seem to change.
They’re not relevant topics to most people, and don’t represent what people are really talking about.
It makes it look like only 40 people use hashtags on Nostr.
wondering why they aren't relevant and what people are "really" talking about 🤷‍♀️
what hashtags (if any) would you suggest?
most of my reads are just everyday life homesteaders and Bitcoin people I'm trying to learn from
Try out https://noo2.news
What am I even looking at?
Can’t rely on hashtags for search.
Genuine users that post from the hip don’t hashtag content. Observed hashtags are oft seen as marketing tactics and gaming for followers and likes.
But the organic desirable content by those real, everyday users won’t be found by search that leans on hashtags to find content.
Then the feature should be removed.
Best search crawls the content. AI contextual categorizer bot that crawls content and feeds findings to search queries from clients. Clients can engage multiple outside search categorizers to scrape its best results for searches performed in the client by the user. The user has settings that let it pick one or more of its ideal search engines that feed the client the results. The results show the note, the engine source and the logic that fed the result to the query response if the user wants to drill in. Just brainstorming here.
I already typed my note. Why do I need to now type hashtags to market it. We have computers for that. Killing the hashtags is fine with me. They get abused, unique ones never get found, they generalize results because unique ones are DOA, and they are generally a pain. #MUCKDUCK
Further on its removal: right now it’s a crutch. Don’t add features to the crutch. Heal the walking so the crutch gets set aside. In UX, this is the way.
They're still somewhat useful to pull on threads with, though admittedly yes, not so much on the main ones. Selecting a hobby hashtag and searching might find 10% of that content, but you'll find a few people posting about it -- read their posts and you'll find the people they're interacting with about those hobbies.
It sort of brings you back to the webrings days of the internet, when everyone knew that search would only turn up so much, but site to site networking let you actually feel like you were on an adventure around the Internet. Remember when we called it "surfing"? Frankly I miss those days of finding cool content buried away where I might be the first person I knew to discover something, and friends would have things to unearth for me. It does take a lower time preference, but the rewards are worth it if you ask me.
Instead, the modern web is the same 20 sites everyone uses because they're SEO'ed to shit and it's whatever the deep state told them to write about or at least promote anyway. Closest you get to the old feel is Marginalia.nu.
We can certainly also write #Nostr code to mimic this modern crap if it's really how we get people to stick around long enough to enjoy the space. But it's worth remembering that most of what it's actually doing is filtering OUT what people have to say. #MyTwoSats