Best evolution for Amethyst Stories?
Discussion
Undoubtedly both and option to add third-party algorithms.
Maybe a simple option to not see stories from an account, and a way to turn on notifications of a story for a particular person I follow? Could be a simple button on the sidebar of the story, with more options on a long press, and story options also displayed on their profile?
Then I would see all stories by my follow list by default, could switch off stories from people I don't want to see new ones from and could subscribe to being notified when my favorite people post one.
I think when this catches on people can just create new accounts and send terrible content all the time. :(
True, but can we make it so that we only see stories from accounts we follow? If someone is posting something we don't want to see, we can just stop following them or stop see their stories?
Either way, I want to decide what I see, not have an algorithm decide for me.
That's the idea with the follow lists. The only issue is that it puts the burden of curating those lists on the user (or the UI.. assuming we can make a useful one)
True, but I don't see that as a bad thing. Nostr allows us to be sovereign in our social media, which also comes with responsibility.
An algorithm would be fine, as long as it's optional and I can choose to curate manually instead. Perhaps an outside algorithm could be a 3rd party subscription service similar to paid relays a user opts into?
Also, what if stories had an option at the top to switch between global stories and followed accounts? Similar to how TikTok has For You and Friends.
That's a tough one
I think we should move away from algorithms and more towards giving more granular control to the user.
Recommendation algorithms are one of the most significant achievements we have made in computer science as a whole, we should not abandon them.
Instead, we should make them more transparent and optional, which would solve the majority of issues.
A marketplace of algorithms is the best of the two worlds.
Stories is the new icon in the bottom middle right? Strictly media?
Is it possible to get URL video feed in that new feed section?
They might not have a URL if NIP-95. I can try to find another interface to copy the URL from the NIP-94 event.
I have noticed that many new artists who come to #Nostr, put me among the first followers they follow, probably because I use #art-themed hashtags a lot.
Maybe you could put hashtags first and build on those to suggest who to follow for a given topic.
Have I made myself clear?
I know most of us, Nostr early adopters, are traumatized by how platforms implemented recommendation systems and all their effects on society. But recommendation systems are the most powerful tools to discover content and, untimely, make Nostr mainstream.
There is an incredible opportunity to do algorithms in the right way. It would be incredible a marketplace of algorithms. You could choose between paid or free algorithms, open source or closed ones... Freemium algorithms could even put promoted content on your recommendations. There are so many possibilities.
Isn't following hashtags enough? Then you can chose to follow #travel, #tech, #crypto, #beauty or whatever.
There is no way to come up with tags for every subject without creating a lot of ambiguity on those tags. Also, content producers can pack their notes with dozens of tags to try to amplify their reach.
That's both true. But Instagram uses hashtag following since ages and it seems to work.
Algorithms on the other hand are client dependent. As Nostre is decentralized and pull-only you will get different feeds on different devices.
Tags are great, but a marketplace of algorithms is essential for Nostr's future
What do you mean "evolution for amethyst stories"?
Right now it is just a dumb global feed. I expect to be taken over by spammers soon. So, we need to find some solutions.
Have we learned nothing from the algorithm experiment...?
