"Lists + hashtags" form a simple yet powerful tool for creating "topic-based" feeds. Check this out:

Eg For painting notes, create a list of well-known artists and assign a specific hashtag for 'painting posts'.

Artists can then use this designated hashtag exclusively for their painting-related content which will appear in the topic feed section. Users can add and remove artists from the list.

You can do this with any topic. This method enables topic-based feeds without any spam, granting users complete control. It's precisely what we need.

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This is how a part of custom feeds are implemented in Bluesky. And it works very well ! Assigning a hashtag and an emoji, etc..

Yeah I've been thinking about lists and hashtags (more specific hashtags rather than the generic #plebchain type ones). Follow recommendations could be based partly on 'appears on same list as' and 'uses same hashtag as'.

Lists could also be a tab within profiles.

Content and user discover is a bit of a pain in the ass atm

If we can pull off *genuinely decentralized* curation of simple lists, I think everything else falls into place.

Consider that two lists is all it takes to specify a graph: one list for nodes, one list for edges. If we can crowdsource graphs, we can crowdsource data models.

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