There has to be a balance. Iris for example shows users to follow and absolutely 0 content in global unless you follow people. That doesn’t really contribute to user discovery and hinders the onboarding.

A list of topics to follow might be nice. But on damus for example search is pretty bad and there’s no way to follow hashtags. The app is awesome but that needs to be addressed too. Most people won’t care to have 3 different clients for different things.

Maybe we don’t even suggest keywords, we could let people enter time. That’s similar to what AppleNews is doing. As opposed to limiting you to some topics you can basically create your own (ex: Nostr) and are able to access related news items in a single click.