You only say this because you've not seen what curation could be like on nostr, reddit sucks extremely and we can create a better version here. We don't have to copy the stupid stuff.
Try pollerama.fun/feeds/topics it's extremely early I'm fixing a lot of stuff still, but it'll give you an idea of what it can be.
Reddit has 110 million daily users
They had 54 million before the surfacing algorithm became central in 2021
Enough people hate algorithmic manipulation that a competitor stripped clean of it could do well
Following topics is an easier sell than following people
Nostr is only doing as well as it is because a subset of Bitcoin Twitter moved here when nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m did. In some sense, the entire user base is the “Bitcoin” topic. It would be great if an entire existing community could move to Nostr rails without being turned off by Bitcoin talk. Think heavily censored groups like anti-vax moms. People who don’t like Zionism. 9/11 truthers.
Mods allow for white list posting, which these sorts of communities are already very familiar and comfortable with. They just need a platform that the whole community can’t be banned from.
Reddit imo was a solid improvement over the traditional forum, because it allowed the group to elevate the most interesting or helpful responses to the question/post. But it was still a defined space of likeminded people.
I think you’re missing the point. Nostr in its current form appeals to an existing group of users, bitcoiners, and no one else. The goal for Nostr development should not be to attract users, it should be to attract existing groups away from centralized platforms (which all groups are fatigued by). The first influx of users won’t be building new groups and relationships, they’ll be coming with those connections already formed from other platforms
I think you're missing the point, did you even see the feed I gave you? I'm trying to preserve the existing connection as much as possible, but you don't have to carry the legacy stupidity along with it.
So you think your solution is definitively better than n/ communities with a moderator in all cases? Why?
