I am not sure that the effort and the pleasure of discovering small gems, and sharing them could be substituted with an algorithm.
I like the idea of growing my network on Nostr in a slow, personal way. Following suggestions from people I already trust, or randomly wandering from one npub to the next. 😉
I understand. I was sorting of thinking tied in with a way for clients to show new people something beyond bitcoin. I think that is a lot of people's impression of Nostr (perhaps not all that inaccurate, it is predominantly this maybe). Personal discovery will always be there imo cos algos won't pick up on everything. (Hashtags and topic-focused clients help somewhat too for discovery.)
What I would really like are clients with an "advanced search" feature. It could make the scouting of the Nostr universe more efficient and effective. E.g. search profile description only, search post with videos, ...
Yes, that would be very useful. I think eg searching for people with a substack as their website link could bring up interesting people, potentially at least. But yeah, there are many possibilities this could be useful for
