This will get us closer to hashtag-exclusive posts. With that option, you can post into a hashtag, a location or a URL, without polluting your main feed. I can post on #chess without annoying all my followers with things they don't care about.
It's a simple way to separate your feed in topics so that only the follows of those topics see your posts, regardless if they follow you or not.
Topic-based feeds are better social media.
I don't know... I follow people, and want to see what they have to say about any topic they are posting about.
If I go to a topic, though, I would like the option to see what anyone has to say about that topic, or just what the folks I follow have to say about it.
The second part is how it will likely be made, even though today if you select #amethyst, you can't subselect by your follows only. But we are going to change that.
The first part is still true, but the author decides if the post on a topic is also for everybody that follows him/her or if it is exclusive to the topic.
Interesting concept. It's going to make me wonder what people are posting about that isn't showing up in my feed, for sure.
I made this npub just so I could follow only hashtags, and so far I like it.
I use Amethyst almost exclusively on my phone, but when on PC I have switched to Coracle, and the ability to customize feeds with the latest update feels like a superpower.
Thanks for the explanation, I love this idea… reminds me of how group chats are so clunky IMO, multiple 1:1 conversations going on between individuals, but everyone is getting notified and it’s all disjointed in a single feed. Too much noise and inefficient, there has to be a better way.
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How much of current reply mechanisms does this NIP break?
Replies using the new comment kind wouldn't show up on clients that are not ready for it. We don't need to migrate kind 1 right away, but other kinds can definatelly migrate to stop using kind1 replies for their stuff.
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Covering the reddit use case out of a mostly twitter-based protocol. I like it
