Is auto-follow suggested users an option where you can unselect people? I'll share this but I don't think my friends would care about most of the suggested follows.
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Discussion
Sure, the follows suggestions are absolutely optional, the user have to actively select them.
But you can customize them to apply personalized follows, for example you can share:
https://start.njump.me?s=npub1cwhy4k8qd2guyqz8t45u4yzyp4k4fhnjn573ukh6e77mde2dgm9s2lujc5
And your friend will find your profile, pre-selected, in the final follows proposal.
You can also add more profiles, separating them with commas.
That's amazing
Who choose people to follow ?
For a community like ours (french community) is it possible to have some active local people ?
Nstart suggests some old and trusted users, but in the end it copies their following list, so we choose the initial limited selection but actually these people create the final lists.
In the future I will probably add some sort of "starter packs", that will also include coated selections by countries or languages.
To achieve what you want now, as suggested you can add one more npubs (separated by commas).
You can also trick the system: create a fictional "French community" user and use it to follow a bunch of people, then add it to the suggestions!
Humm, I don't understand everything 🤔
How could we create a selection of french nprofile to onboard new come?
Do you have an example?
Just as them to the URL, separated by commas
https://start.njump.me?s=npub1,npub2,npub3
The "trick" is simply a new Nostr account with a descriptive name that follows some people.
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Ok. Simple and evolutive !
If I prepare something like this could I have a special link with this profile to onboard Frenchy ?
What do you mean with "special link"?. You build the URL as explained and just share it directly.