I suspect having an on-ramp to a lightly filtered relay as a new user, while initially reminiscent of services they may be leaving, would help adoption. An opportunity for someone, perhaps.
“Wild West” Nostr could be a secondary exploration. Before I figured out filtering on the Universal feed it had become practically useless.
Agreed, new users who just came in saw a screen full of spam and thought they were entering a bad porn site, friends introduced Damus to others, "That's an app full of spam," they asked me how I was still in Damus, I said the app still had 10,000 DAU, they were surprised.
Any advice on how to filter Universal? No idea how and it’s full of spam for me :(
Yes! Hit the filter icon, top right, then turn off/on individual relays. In this example, I’ve cut the feed back to just a couple of paid relays and it’s made a huge difference. Damus TestFlight, but I believe this is in the App Store version also.
1. Client agnostic:
- use all paid relays
- use filter.nostr.wine relay to aggregate events of your follows and their follows from the public relays
2. If your client allows it turn off just the public relays in the universal feed or
3. Find free relays that do some spam filtering like nos.mom and use above two steps.
