Figuring out communities:
How to hide from view NSFW (and even more grotesque content) from the 95% of normal people that would immediately delete the app if they saw it.
How to aggregate data and comments. When millions are posting we’ll need to be able to aggregate ideas through the best posters, while not completely hiding others of the same viewpoint.
Disparate relays mean disparate access to information, loss of information, and challenges with finding information.
All the good clients have solved the smut problem for the most part. I see close to zero smut on Amethyst.
Agreed. Many think NSFW is a feature, not a but. But the mainstream user will not want to see this. I anticipate a client who can hide this effectively will garner more users. Zapped!
Thanks!
It’s not just NSFW too. It’s designing communities that work overall.
Today Nostr is small (I’d love to see data on total Notes posted per day, user count etc), but it’s growing.
How will we parse data and highlight notes when there are tens of millions of notes per day, vs thousands.
Many of those notes crossing the same themes and ideas and many exactly the same?
Building communities around the most insightful minds while also maintaining an open forum will be incredibly important for the growth of Nostr.
Does anyone know if any former Twitter engineers are involved with Nostr? Seems to me that knowledge of how some of these issues got dealt with (or not) there would be useful. Nostr is not reinventing the wheel, it’s a new type of machine, but it probably still needs bearings, maybe some rubber and must conform to the laws of physics.
