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A hellthread for newbies should happen. Great idea from nostr:npub1n0pdxnwa4q7eg2slm5m2wjrln2hvwsxmyn48juedjr3c85va99yqc5pfp6 🔥🤙

Maybe one thread gets auto-created per day, for new accounts? A bot could perhaps moderate (ie create and add accounts)? Or a client could look for a specific hashtag or highlight/group users some other way?

I’d love to see a client that incorporates this into the onboarding flow.

Something simple like a hashtag-based recommendation. “Join a thread with other users who signed up this week” and show the most recent conversations with the #NewbieThread hashtag or something like this.

Seasoned nostriches could also follow the hashtag if their client supports it (most clients seem to allow following hashtags now, right?), and we can chime in to offer technical support or guidance to the hatchlings.

Thoughts? Problems with this?

Wish I’d heard of this before our panel on Thursday, nostr:npub1aeh2zw4elewy5682lxc6xnlqzjnxksq303gwu2npfaxd49vmde6qcq4nwx nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424

#plebchain

#introductions

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Derek Ross 1y ago

I don't think it's a horrible idea. It could be interesting if executed correctly. Not everyone likes hell threads or even understands them though. Having it be completely opt it could be fun for those that want to get in. However the issue with hell threads is getting out. You can't on most clients. If a noob gets overwhelmed they're stuck and have to essentially suck it up. Proper and thorough explanations would be needed too.

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boston wine 1y ago

Thanks man, appreciate the thoughts. I didn’t realize most clients don’t offer a “mute convo” like Damus - I assumed that was widespread by now 😬

My thinking was that a bot could find the conversation, check that a user is real/not spam, and tag them into the thread with a brief explanation of why (and how to mute, ideally).

I’m thinking that a more social-forward onboarding experience, one that gets around the early discovery limitations and introduces new users to seasoned nostriches and vice versa, could make a meaningful impact on user retention, if people get off to a good start 🤔

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boston wine 1y ago

Yo team

nostr:npub1q33jywkl8r0e5g48lvrenxnr3lw59kzrw4e7p0cecslqzwc56eesjymqu0 had a great idea below

A bot that relies to #introductions posts with an onboarding guide 🤯

- Simpler and more efficient to implement than a client-side feature

- More customizable (link to a guide that can be updated as needed)

- Much wider reach/range than anything done on the individual client level

It could link to nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc's Nostr.how (I kno I owe you two PR cleanups Jeff, sorry for the delay 🫣), and/or any of numerous simple intro guides.

Perhaps even just to a single web page with “getting started, best practices, and more resources” guides and links.

I feel like this would answer a lot of the questions that came up during NostrVillage.

Am I missing anything obvious? Drawbacks? Has it been done before?

I guess it’s “centralizing” in a sense that everyone’s getting the same intro guide. But at the same time, anyone could build this if there were a reason to “compete” or something. Which if nostr gets to as far as that stage, it would be a good problem to have. So like that’s not an issue.

Do bots work this way? Like can it be connected to relays A through Z, follow a specific hashtag, and then reply to every post with that content that it sees?