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nostr:npub149p5act9a5qm9p47elp8w8h3wpwn2d7s2xecw2ygnrxqp4wgsklq9g722q help me out, here. I'm stuck in data structure purgatory.

There's 30402 event type that allows me to identify a particular coffee machine.

A 30040 event type that allows me to identify a publication.

A #communikeys that allows me to identify a relay or cluster of relays.

Can't I just put have refer to those events, directly, rather than ISBN numbers or URIs or whatnot? I feel like having ephemeral ratings is suboptimal. I get why they exist, but they'll make client development a pain.

Is it really too much to ask, that anything rated first be clearly defined, in an event that describes the object? Then we don't need to define the object in every rating of the object; we just define the object once and then refer to that with subsequent ratings. And then everyone writing a rating would know what it will be applied to (whatever is in the e/a tag), instead of it being applied to one set in vlient ABC and another in client XYZ.

Maybe I'm just too stupid for ratings. Whatever.

Niel Liesmons 8mo ago

1) Yes, events at the top. ISBN, URI, Podcast ids... can all be part of events, but they are not the addressable entity.

Same problem for when you're looking for all articles, replies, etc... on a Bach concerto. Wikis are the solution.

The best wiki entry (for you) on that concerto will aggregate everything around it (tailored to certain niche) and have all the identifiers (event and non-nostr) in there.

And the best Wiki app (for you) will aggregate the best Wiki entries (for you).

2) I think :90percent: of general Rating systems are useless on a protocol where you have replies, zaps, discussions, articles, ... on the thing you're looking to judge/compare.

If you want to know if Jane Eyre is something for you, I think we have better options:

A) Personalized summaries of the data around it.

(data that people are publish regardless of general apecs trying to make them rate stuff according to their standards).

B) Specialized Comparing apps (that use whatever metrics they find useful for the niche they're catering to)

C) Is Jane Eyre even a thing in my network?

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Laeserin 8mo ago

Yes! Exactly.

I guess the fact that you can rate and like and zap and reply to nonexistent things sounds really clever, but I just want a thing. 😭

Laeserin 8mo ago

I think I'm only going to do ratings directly on the publications because Beave really wants them, and otherwise skip them.

They're making my head hurt.

How do I rate "stoic philosophy" without there being a wiki page about stoicism? And am I then rating the philosophy or the page?

If I rate an ISBN of Jane Eyre, am I rating that edition or the content of the novel? What if I loved the story, but didn't like the font and found too many typos?

It's like on Amazon, when you go to look at the reviews of a coffee machine and people are bitching about how the postman dropped it on the doorstep and give it 0 stars.

Silberengel 8mo ago

I was thinking about this, while walking in the forest (literally, LOL) and I love the thought of typing in, for instance, "conclave" into the search bar or URL bar of Alexandria and getting a wiki disambiguation page back, and the top entry being from nostr:npub1229y50ruvq9hjdxsjknh43gq4n9ef7h3h5hc4ezzrkg0q7kgg0tsv9a402 and containing a summary of everything npubs on wss://theforest.nostr1.com have said about the #conclave.

Could run a build hourly and create or update all wiki pages with the newest activity to the various topics.