Yeah I’m confused by that critique well. My twitter was way more bitcoiny because of the algo boosting bitcoin content to me. I get more variety here 🤔 nostr:note1rhxnx3se87pagfxm9hjyxyf8vdwr6q2t9pr7z4g33v3ptf6n0hxqguq0hh
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I think it’s global that does that. The newcomers are not following enough people so they don’t see our variety of notes. I recall having global on all free relays and seeing a ton of bitcoin content. It was annoying and I love bitcoin obviously- just don’t need the same regurgitated stuff in the face.
Is there a way to create topics without hashtags? I see people abuse hashtags already or don’t understand their purpose.
Topics would run into the same issues. Topics are just hashtags
You need moderated topics, the way satellite.earth and nostr.kiwi works, this is where I hoped to find non-bitcoin communities, but it's still too early for good content
Not a fan of the moderated communities spec. Reminds me of mastodon too much.
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Except it's not like mastodon at all. You don't lose your notes and they can only be censored in the community itself (which is the moderator's prerogative), not in the rest of the nostr network.
I've been making community posts and they show up as regular kind 1 notes on Damus for the people who follow me. Uncensorable.
Why are we bringing reddit moderator tyranny to nostr? It’s why I left reddit in the first place.
Curation is still important when building communities. Hashtags are terrible noisy solution.
Nostr communities have the perfect free market competition since no one owns a communities name, anyone can create and curate their own version of /n/bitcoin.
It's not like reddit at all.
How do you determine the “right” one in the presence of many name clashes
Reputation, nb of members, nb of members in your contact list, activity, etc.
I still think private relays would be a much better solution for this kind of thing, and more decentralized. You would just have a relay for your community, like a discord. Then the moderation is simply whatever techniques they want to employ of the relay side (paid, friend-of-friend-invite, open, etc).
We need better tools on the client side for filtering views and talking to private relay communites, and not treating them like whatever is in your current pool.
How are topical relays not the same as mastodon and Lemmy? It's a huge entry barrier and the if notes only live there, you can actually get censored.
Not to mention the UX of adding topical relays on your clients and managing different relay feeds sounds like a nightmare compared to nostr communities.
Same here, but that's also partly because I don't feel the need to talk about something most of us here already understands well enough.
Thats a good point, maybe a big part of BT is recruiting other groups on Twitter 🤔
I don’t feel the need to do that here or anywhere really. If you like it then cool, if you don’t thats fine. People make a huge deal about this, I don’t get it.