Nostr Web Client

There are three audiences for a reaction:

- the author of the original note,

- the creator of the reaction,

- other readers observing both.

If you eliminate the author from seeing the reaction, there are still the other two. The creator may want to know later which posts they liked and when. The creator may want to search through their old liked content to find something they half remember.

The other readers may want to see aggregate counts of reactions of different types. Perhaps they want to search for the mutually-liked posts of the people they follow. That could be a strong signal.

Could these be handled in another way? Certainly. But what would be the benefit of inventing a different mechanism?

Marks 2y ago

I think this is where the bookmarks feature comes in. Someone correct me, but I think you can have public and private bookmarks. So you’re able to search for things later. And if they were bookmarked publicly, it can be a signal for others to see.

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jimbocoin 🃏 2y ago

Right. The nostr protocol is fairly liberal in what kinds of content one can post. One could use replaceable long-form notes to encode an encrypted list of bookmarked posts for example. There are probably dozens of ways to implement bookmarking and personal search for the specific only-you use case.

jimbocoin 🃏 2y ago

The nice thing about likes in particular is that it’s an established paradigm. Likes are low-hanging fruit, UI-implementation wise. Some clients won’t implement likes, but many do. So a user using likes for bookmarks/search can more easily try different clients compared to a user relying on a more exotic implementation.