Y'all just retweet each others' stuff, so everyone just sees the same people being retweeted over and over. And it's the same people everyone is already following. Which are also the same people on the recommended list. Which are also the same people in the most-popular follow packs. Which are also the same people on the trending list. Which are also...
First thing I did, was turn off reposting. Now, every post gets seen by me, one time, and basta.
If someone reposts, I just add another profile pic icon to the posted note. I don't present it in the feed, again and again and again
But I let users sort by repost count.
What about only reposting your own comments (haiku's) 🤔
Nostur has a feature that hides a post you've already seen. But it's still in progress #Nostr
Yeah, I do that, as well. But I do it locally, as I can't get the read-events to be persistent. Nobody can, apparently, as I've never seen it work very well.
The problem is that, because everyone follows the same mega-npubs, most people's feeds are basically ded, without the reposts. The reposts simulate activity because you can keep scrolling. You're just scrolling past the same thing, over and over, but the scrolling movement itself satisfies the desire to feel like you're interacting.
Follow concentration means that almost every npub's posts have zero views (which is why they almost always turn around and leave, as that's a permanent state) and 10 npubs have 20k views. And then there's the curmudgeons, who look at each others' stuff and have 10 views per post.
And that's why follow packs won't actually help. They'll all have the same handful of people on them, and the most-popular packs will be the ones with the highest-concentration of the most-popular people.
Were just early.
I see new things often through people reposting things. We just have a long way to grow.
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Also true for most big music accounts here that promote v4v artists.
They just endlessly promote like the 10 most popular ones and ignore me anytime I make my existence known to them. They have no obligation to boost me, sure, but still has major "V4V for me but not for thee" vibes.
