Replying to Avatar Dawn

I am talking a lot about wss://relays.land/spatianostra recently, not just for the feed itself but for the idea. The dynamic voting concept has serious potential to diversify feeds by the general ethos/politics/interests of any set of users. That becomes really powerful as Nostr relay browsing gains client-side momentum. Communitoloes can form more organically.

The spatianostra feed itself is simply an example of an easily accessible, non-capturing, curated feed. It is not controlled by anyone, just guided. We've tailored towards giving those new to Nostr a welcoming place to browse & discover nice content & people, because there has been a need for that. Try to imagine other feeds composed of high-signal information or mostly [insert any political slogan here] or a completely different feel, like the #⭕️ , all available in a click or two, with curation being a low-barrier action for participating voters.

There is lots of room for competition in creating unique feeds that users enjoy browsing. Eventually, there will be more incentive to earn placement in various feeds as well. There needs to be more stuff like this to showcase some of what makes Nostr unique and to provide people with options. The wide-open part has proven to work pretty well. And spatianostra is helping to prove that you can take chunks out & not effect that openness at all. It's not a walled garden, it's a nice little picnic spot on this vast & beautiful planet. That might be a cheesy analogy, but I bet you can't scroll that feed and honestly tell me that I'm wrong. πŸ˜…

I was thinking for my alternative Nostr trending algorithms for nostr.land and feeds that each person gets an exposure limit.

If they exceed it they can’t show up until a while later. And also, it has to be something above your baseline level of interactions to show people especially find it interesting.

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I like that idea too, especially the above baseline part because popular people will always be popular. It makes no sense try to fight that. Why not highlight why they are popular rather than glorifying everything they say, and it levels the playing field a little for everyone.

Would you be interested in beta testing the nostr.land custom relays feature that I’m working on?

Of course... what do I need to do?

1. Say yes (done)

2. Wait

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1b. Pick a name for the relay

Fifteenminutes πŸ˜…

1c. What policy for content acceptance

That feels like a vague question... is it in relation to content types? Frequency? Baselines?

Sorry if I'm slow to respond right now. I'm walking around a carnival πŸ˜‚

What should be accepted

Do you want the algorithm I mentioned

Kind 1s, highlights, quotes, voice notes, long-form, reposted replies. I don't know enough to know if that last one is possible possible. No more than 3 hashtags. And yes, on the algorithm idea. I think that has interesting possibilities. Does that sound rational?

yes