Yeah, I'm just diagnosing problems for now. But actions can be obvious from it - for example, implementing topical channels or feeds could greatly help with diversity (of topics and respective people). I'm sure there are a lot of ways to improve this.
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Topical feeds and channels exist, both as communities & DVM. Both are somewhat supported in Amethyst. Flotilla.social is a community oriented client.
Curated user lists based on various criteria are available at following.space and included in many clients.
Amethyst is cool, but it's one mobile-only client. Flotilla is more Discord-like. I'm talking about this functionality in most microblogging clients to actually be useful.
Following.space is good direction. Would be best integrated directly into clients.
Following.space *is* already integrated into many clients. Amethyst, Damus, Primal are the more popular ones, and there are others.
A good client on iOS that includes many extended Nostr features is Nostur nostur.com It also features lists that can be public, allowing other users to share, copy, and modify them. This feature is also available on Amethyst and some other clients.
A web client with many advanced features can be found at nostrudel.ninja
dont interrupt the genius of diagnostics while he is enumerating problems
the doctor house of social networks
Very cool. But still thats just lists of profiles (starter packs) that you can follow, not feeds that contain only specific thematic posts - that was my main point. Most people today are multi-disciplinary (i think?), interested / writing about many topics, so this will only help partially.
what client are you using?
Primal, Jumble/Fevela, Coracle the most
you could try relay communities like wss://spatia-arcana.com
I can invite you if you want
I just upped the number of member invites to 5 each and all members can now claim a @spatia-arcana .com nip-05 address. A couple of us are starting to do some content curation on wss://spatia-arcana.com/favorites .
This pyramid relay is only about a week old, nostr:nprofile1qqst9ge7953et4c854glcpp7ctdcke2ml0jf2m4dltdav9dppalp5usppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyfhwumn8ghj7mmxve3ksctfdch8qatz9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcywv3cf but you are welcome to explore what we're doing at https://spatia-arcana.com
These also exist. Some clients integrate DVM feeds (Amethyst, Primal). Some clients let you view specific relays as a feed (jumble, coracle, yakihonne), and relays can be created for any topic. You can even run one, either on your own hardware or on hosted instance. relay.tools is a simple way to get started.
I'd advise to get a broader taste of what Nostr offers, you seem to be unaware of a lot of what already exists. You may need to find a better client.
I think this conversation stopped being productive, because your answer will always be "that already exists somewhere." You're solving for technical completeness. I'm talking about why growth isn't happening even despite that completeness.
Yeah you're probably right, I offer the tools that already exist and you just move the goalposts. Do you have plans that could fix these issues you see? What concrete steps would fix this?
You could start building it with Shakespeare right now. shakespeare.diy
"topical channels or feeds"
Which leads us to hashtags, which leads us right back to Mostr, because any time you do a hashtag search for anything that's not #bitcoin or maybe #plandemic, you get nothing but Mostr posts.
Then users interact with these posts thinking they're talking to real people on Nostr, which they aren't.
I'll say it again: either fix the bridges, or put a big sign on them saying "out of order" 🚧⛔🚧