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For as much as I like https://nostr.band/ I think it will be sad if we end up with a handful of search engines indexing the entirety of the Nostr public network. If Nostr is successful it will be hard for hobby search engines to exist, right? The amount of stuff will be too huge.

Does it make sense or does it scale to have search engines that prune content and only keep references? Or search engines that only index content from the last year from a set of relays? Or only from a set of public keys according to some algorithm? I don't know.

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captjack 🏴‍☠️✨💜 2y ago

this is the most important topic *** going forward.

there has to be trade-off between factors like filtering , indexing, ... Also commercial sustainability aspect need to/will come soon. big player with deep pocket will enter space too. wish to multiplayer level playing field - Than hegemony of gulag 95% crawling / indexing market share english++ content of clearnet - crowd happy to follow that ! hope #nostr #search #engine evolve ot be better place in 5years from now

iefan 🕊️ 2y ago

I love Nostr.band and use it every day, but I agree that search is an important aspect. It also has a very big potential to become a gatekeeper.

Search should also get advantage of network effect.

hodlbod 2y ago

If relays become private-read only, which I think will be a common (but not dominant) scenario, they'll have to self-index.

yunginter.net 2y ago

maybe mix in a choose your own read more nip with private-read only so like sub stack, you still index the top of the articles publicly

pam 2y ago

Can’t there be options ? For specific topic that a user speaks abt , or duration of time. The content search is getting a lot these days

Ironically Nostr Band has better overall view of notes and engagement compared to most clients

brugeman 2y ago

So you said you like nostr.band?

Seriously though, I think search is a problem that will inevitably result in winner-take-all solution. Event if we built a winning 'decentralized' search engine w/o a single corporation to control it, it would still be a single algo that everyone uses.

The only thing that makes me less sad about it would be that we have LN now, and the winners might have a non-ads based business model, which would in theory work better for the world.

But that's all long-term, and meanwhile we might have many years of more diversity and fun.

StackSats.IO 2y ago

I like nostr.band mate, it’s a fantastic project 🤙

Find it is the best way to share posts externally too, like showing Lyn’s rant got 600k Sats to the muppets on Twitter who are now moving to Substack instead.

Bac0t 2y ago

i redirect https://nostr.bacot.web.id to my profile on nostr.band, id rather show a link than a long npub, maybe a link shortner would be cool

xiangcai 2y ago

I used nostr.band to search for advices, it's cool and useful.🤙

mutatrum 2y ago

I would think that it's feasible to have private search if the content is limited to your social circle.

Marcus Roberto 2y ago