Nostr Web Client

It seems to me that one way to conceptualize online content is to divide it into durable vs ephemeral. Not completely isolated categories; more like two ends of a spectrum.

Nostr, as well as legacy social media like Twitter, are concerned primarily with ephemeral content. You’re on social media bc you want to have conversations with other users. Which means you’re a lot more interested in content that is new than content that is old. Which is why nostr feeds tend to be displayed in reverse chronological order.

But content that is “durable” is content that doesn’t automatically lose its value just because it’s aged. When you’re searching for durable content, you don’t want to see the results put in reverse chronological order, you want them sorted using some other metric.

Does nostr have a search engine that sorts results by relevance or importance rather than by age?

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Alison Avery 11mo ago

Outstanding question. I would like to know the same. Being able to search and sort by relevance (a.k.a. signal quality) in customized time frames (ex. 2 weeks, 3 months, 3 years, all-time) would make nostr a stand-out quality information tool in even more ways than it already is.

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il_lost_ 11mo ago

you should be looking for something you can't comment on, so even long form isn't good for that, maybe if you're looking for a store, a book, but I'm still in the early stages where there's no search.

david 11mo ago

I’d say some content, like long form, has elements of “durable” and “ephemeral” at the same time. The main question I’m focused on is whether users would like search results to be stratified by age (ephemeral content) or by some other score like an importance or relevance score (durable content).

Or maybe users would like to have the option to stratify using either method. A button to toggle between age vs importance score. Although the idea I’m kicking around is that the differences between these two things run deep enough that the user experience might suffer if we tried to combine them into the same app. Like trying to combine the Google search homepage and reddit. Just wouldn’t work.

Muntasim Ul Haque 11mo ago

Would love to know the answer, too.