Totally agree. What’s interesting though is that as a cohort, gen z does not mind giving their data up in order to receive personalized feeds. It’s a compromise they’re willing to make.
My point is that in order for Nostr to capture the attention of this generation, personalization needs to be built into clients.
I can't directly speak to the Gen Z crew as I am too old for that (lol) but I can say one thing.
It's not so much for the personalized feed that they care for, its the dopamine hit they take when they are sucked into the psychological warfare that these apps inflict on them in a totally predatory nature.
Right now my personal feed on Nostr is to just follow people I want to follow. Apps like Instagram attack you with posts for engagement and likes that are not even related to your friends. Same with the "For you" feed on Twitter.
I am all for a personalized feed, but we need to make sure it's done in the right way and not in the way that Zuck et al are doing.
With the permissionless open nature of Nostr this can be achieved and there can be competing "algorithms" to create the best personal feeds.
I also prefer to only see posts from people I choose to follow. However, if we’re trying to get most of the world to adopt this technology, then we need to understand what it is THEY want in a social media app. Not necessarily what you and I want. And what THEY want is curated content. Gen Z is the most important market to address for any hope of « hyperbitcoinization ». Period.
The beauty of Nostr is that some clients can choose to cater to that audience while others can stay barebones just for us :) we now have choice!
So the philosophical question that I have now is, have the Gen Z crew been influenced by big data to make them THINK that they want these types of feeds, or is this something they truly do want? Have our minds been destroyed by big data and we shall choose to give the options for staying a slave to the algorithms, or should we be training their minds to stop this? If this is even something that they want to be stopped.
