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I don't dislike the idea of algorithms, I just never found one that really worked. Not even the YouTube algo works for me.

Follow-based feeds work. But it gets old quick. The secret is finding new communities to belong. Not necessarily in a NIP-29/Discord way. But communities nevertheless.

When you build a follow list, you are essentially assembling a community for yourself. You mark the people you want to engage with. Nostr is still a single community.

Maybe Clients need more of that "Follow list building magic". Or maybe communities will be formed around apps, like Olas is doing right now. Maybe we need different nsecs for different communities...

Maybe the whole point of Nostr identities is to build, discard it and start again.

Maybe multiple identities is the natural state of life. And Nostr is just the vehicle to make them digital...
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Tekkadan, ゲロゲロ! 🐸 10mo ago

Global follow lists suck. Simple as.

How Nostr solves for this, is entirely the point of such a protocol.

We need to be able to:

1) Learn where users can be found

2) Remember where users can be found

3) Assign categories to both friends and lists of friends (as well as locations- i.e. relays)

Global follow lists don't aim to achieve these goals.

I also don't believe NIP-29 solves for this.

Relay.tools, nip-42, and nip-70 could very well solve for this, but I won't waste my breath trying to explain it unless someone wants to hear it. BlastrNet sucks in my opinion.

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