how do i clean up my feed? so much randomness and numbers and people i don’t follow, or different posts from the same person #asknostr
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What client are you using that your feed is filled with people you aren't even following?
damus
Popped into Damus on my iPhone and the feed only shows people I follow. The only way to see non-followers is to go to the search tab, which shows all notes on the relays I have set up. If that's where you are going and seeing stuff you don't want to see, I don't know what to tell you...
The other possibility is that you have followed some hashtags. Doing so adds any post that includes that hashtag into your main feed. That will end up putting posts from people you don't follow into your home feed. Also, do you suppose malicious actors might add popular hashtags into their posts in order to get their content in front of people who don't want to see it?
Yep. They absolutely do. Unfortunately, this has made hashtags close to useless, unless you have a heavy web-of-trust or pagerank filter applied to them, which Damus does not... Imagine that, a censorship resistant protocol where it is actually difficult, to the point of being close to impossible, to censor.
I would recommend trying out Nostur instead. It has built-in web-of-trust filtering. Another good one is Coracle. No iOS app for it, as it is a web app, but you can use it pretty easily by first downloading nostr:npub1h0uj825jgcr9lzxyp37ehasuenq070707pj63je07n8mkcsg3u0qnsrwx8, then log in with your nsec and go to the built-in web browser and navigate to https://coracle.social/
that's it! the hashtags! i followed a bunch it looks like, from when I used nostr a while ago. I guess I did too many and some bad actors, as you say, used some of them to get into my feed. that explains everything, thank you so much! I'll check out those apps too, thank you thank you!
This is the entire point of this place.
came across a random account I don't follow posting CP links
I'm trying really hard to like & use nostr, but coming across shit like that on my feed shows the onboarding process for new users is not only difficult, but dangerous
I have the complete oposite issue, I don’t see anything in my feed
There's no good way to clean it up. All the spam filters on nostr are currently broken af so by the time you actually block spam, you're also missing half the actual users posting on nostr
nostr will not succeed if this is the case
i love the tech, it's the future, all social should be like this, but this new user onboarding is way too frustrating for nostr to succeed
there has to be a better app or something out there that helps with this? i want to like & use nostr so bad =(
literally scrolled today and came across some random account I don't follow posting CP links
So far I'm really sure any app that helps will also filter way too many real users. It will be big news when a better nostr client comes along. And you're right, nostr won't succeed until then 🤙
Sorry it's not better yet
it was hashtags! i found out why and yup, when I used damus/nostr a long time ago I followed several hashtags, and I guess some of these bots or bad actors snuck in with one of the ones I followed. changing those now, thank you so much
The best hashtag is asknostr but the bots get in there too
I'm glad nostr is working well enough for you now 💯 sorry I didn't see the issue clearly enough to help solve it
No uses global, sino el feed de los que tú sigues