Nostr Web Client

I've thought about it this a lot recently. Just like in life, there are layers/levels to the amount your trust or want to pay attention to someone.

I've always thought it would be a cool UI pattern to have a dial or a slider for all feeds on Nostr, where you can control the aperture of the feed based on their WoT proximity to you, how much you trust them, or how much you want to pay attention to them.

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Niel Liesmons 1y ago

People don't know how to rate products. Letting them rate how much they trust Alice fir X and Bob for Y is a UX nightmare.

Why ask users to do something (they can't) that competing algorithms could probably do a waaaay better job at?

Almost all data is public and users literally spend money on what they wanna see more of.

Even the most simple algo nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft could come up with after children bedtime would do better job then humans indicating trust levels ever could.

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JeffG 1y ago

I’m not talking about a dial or slider for the trust you have in people; I’m talking about it for the feed. Basically dialing up or down whatever algo/heuristics you’re using.

Niel Liesmons 1y ago

I'd autonate that too.

Updating these things all the time sucks.

It's the sane problem with ratings in general. If you've only seem Mean Girls, think it's the best movie ever and give it a 10. The Lord of the Rings comes along and you have to update EVERYTHING.

JeffG 1y ago

I think you're missing my point. Here's the UX.

1. I'm looking at primal but want to see only my closest friends content. (Primal knows this based on WoT and other signals I've given it over time - it's on them to come up with an algo that makes sense - I'm not manually doing anything other than using the app).

2. I change a setting on the feed page (takes less than 1 second).

3. My feed updates to only show my closest contacts.

4. I decide I want to see lots of new content. I change the setting. My feed updates again.

This can be made very very easy for users. The heuristics behind the scenes are doing most of the work, which is why no one has made this yet. It's quite complicated.

Also, there is the obvious issue with cold starts - your filter is shit for a while until Primal builds up enough info.

Niel Liesmons 1y ago

Aha lol, then we mean basically the same thing 😂. Scuzi!

With that setting change being:

You selecting from competing algos that ideally any client can access (of course "latest from following" doesn't have to a DVM etc)

PABLOF7z 1y ago

I don't know if that's a compliment or an insult but I'll take it

Niel Liesmons 1y ago

Very much a compliment 💪