Just gonna repeat this until someone with the skills does it:

Build into a client the ability to follow a list of the most prolific 10K, 5K, or 2K posters (figure out the right number) for the past day, week, month, whatever, minus the spam of course. Could even set it to eliminate 'GM” as counting toward actual posts. Even better have the abilityof the user to toggle off the avatar/name of the poster if he prefers.

Now, I’m reading only those who have PROOF OF WORK, not PROOF OF STAKE.

The result would be everyone who is doing the work would get followed with a much higher chance of their posts getting seen.

The second-order effect would be CURATION. It would be MUCH easier for someone (or a group) with the time to be on nostr constantly to highlight and re-post the 50-100 best ones every day. That curator would get a lot of followers and would be boosting quality posts.

Other curators would emerge. New npubs would get instant engagement for posting quality because they would get into the golden 2000 or 5000 or whatever.

The ecosystem would grow rapidly due to quality.

I will keep posting this until someone sees it.

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what do u exactly mean by "prolific"? What's the actual metric, number of posts?

yes, number of non-spam posts

This would be very very bad. One could just posts a bunch of stuff and get in the trending easily.

How would that help you? You get into the 1 in 5000K trending? No incentive.

Sorry, 1 in 5K. The point is to narrow it down small enough for curators to emerge.

it's replacing a problem with another problem. A feed with the top posters on nostr means (by definition) hundreds of thousands of posts, perhaps millions per day.

You could tweak the numbers to make it manageable. Say you screen for the top 2K posters over the previous week. And they make on average 5 posts per day. That’s 10K posts per day.

If they are the top posters (by number of posts), they would race each other to post more and more. It's easy to post 50, 100, 300 posts per day.

How would that help you? You would merely qualify for screening and then get ignored by the curators if your posts were low quality. Probably blocked too for spam.

There would be no incentive to fake it, but if you were a small account with something to say and posted consistently you’d get picked up by the curators.

> You would merely qualify for screening and then get ignored by the curators if your posts were low quality. Probably blocked too for spam.

screen time has value, and manually blocking doesn't work as one can simply create billions of other identities, starting over every time.

This is simply pushing the problem to the curators then.

There’s no value in being 1 in 2K on one particular obscure feed that’s useful mostly to serious curators looking to be the guides (DJs so to speak) of the protocol.

And yes, it makes the enormous problem (curating the entire protocol) manageable for those who are up for the task and pushes it onto them.

> There’s no value in being 1 in 2K on one particular obscure feed that’s useful mostly to serious curators.

I disagree. The more the "guides" of the curators are used, the more value can be extracted by influencing curators.

If the curator is any good, he won’t be sharing most of the posts. So if you’re posting garbage just to get into the feed, it won’t bear fruit. And if you’re posting quality things, it will, and then it’s not a problem.

it's quite bizarre that nobody thinks that simply people talking to each other for work and play reasons and paying for the infrastructure and development through subscriptions is enough

no, we gotta have all that money sloshing around like advertisers were hiding in the shadows flinging it at everyone who gets an audience

You can do this with an advanced search feed in nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg. 🤙

You can sort by most non-spam posts over x amount of time?

Advanced search lets you include or omit any words & phrases, as well as filter by various engagement metrics, then save the search so you can completely customize a feed to your own liking based on whatever you want (or don't want) to see. 🤙