Good points, from a fundamental perspective even an algo that was successfully designed to be decentralized and ungamable is going to have to derive its metric of what constitutes "interesting" from the way humans use the app and the things they post about, so it's function will at least indirectly reflect the interests of existing users. If oddbean is pushing down btc content it's genuinely debatable if that is a good or bad strategy — but in any case it's an editorial decision that fails the decentralization requirement (not saying that's necessarily bad in the short term). In the long term there's this question of how to remove a reliance on editors. Paradoxically the solution might actually be leaning into editorial maximalism, in effect having lot's of competing moderators, i.e. communities. But then there's still the question of making sure that new/alt communities are visible so you don't end up like Reddit with a set of defacto "default" subs
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(just wanted to emphasise that I 'm not entirely sure if that is what oddbean was doing lol, don't want to misrepresent them, and I think it's a nice project.)
But more generally downgrading 'btc content' seems logical in terms of attracting a retaining a new or prospective user. I say this mostly because I don't really see it even as content for the most part maybe lol, and not interesting. More like repeated solgans, which is understandable obviously, the userbase has most been migrated from btc twitter, it's more diluted there within differing content, it feels overwhelming here, to me at least. And perhaps to others you see complaining about it too. So to me that is a sensible editorial position for a client (not saying all) to take.
Should 'st4ck s4ts, st4y humb1e' be offered at trending to a new user? Has that become trending because it is interesting content? I'm obviously arguing no lol (but fair enough to those who want tho too obvs lolol). It's probably more likely a popular account said it and parasocial relationships also exist here, albeit on a much smaller scale than other platforms maybe. But yeah, just arguing that that sort of editorial approach makes total sense as a landing page.
I can sort of see a possible usage of nostr... in the same way I never look at the Global Feed, communities may join migrating from other platforms and stay in the reddit-ish/forum-ish sections and similarly ignore the'social feed' twitter-like function, like how I ignore Global.
obviously no one knows how this plays out, I just see a hopeful possibility in that lol. And satellite is leading the way on Communities. 😉
> communities may join migrating from other platforms and stay in the reddit-ish/forum-ish sections and similarly ignore the'social feed' twitter-like function, like how I ignore Global
Yup. Nostr has the potential to replace both Twitter and Reddit, but not by making the UX both at the same time