The pay-for-repost notes might be my least favourite nostr note. You can be pretty certain that whoever made the note isn't posting anything worthwhile and block them without even checking their profile. It's basically spam(?)
I appreciate discovery on nostr is bugged too tho. Discovery on nostr is basically whatever Derek and Jack like, plus some clout tourism from bitcointwitter. But still.
It's really a culture problem. Everyone on here is trying to sell something stupid. Hopefully good algos get made and that fixes things. Main reason I'm on NOSTR again is I think good algos are important for small accounts to make new frens
I'm here to get away from the algos telling me who and what I should and shouldn't like. I share what I find entertaining, interesting, informational. There should be no algorithms, even for discovery.
Algorithms in and of themselves aren't bad or evil. On Nostr you should be free to choose one or many to find new notes and people to follow.
The problem is when you don't have control of the algo, and it is used against you. To make you angry, to convince you to buy something etc.
Nostr fixes this by choice of client, relay, DVM, etc. Algo's won't go away. They will get better, and work for you, not against you.
I think there will always be a no-algo option on most clients
A list of notes ordered by date and time is an algo
Imagine looking for a file on your computer, and the only way to list them was in order of file creation, no directory structure, no sorting by name, date modified, file type, etc
Now extend this to thousands, millions of people committing notes on a worldwide network. Some way to sort and filter is necessary, I think anyway.
I'd like to see a ranking of nostr post categories, the platitude post is my least favorite, followed closely by the weird metaphor post - eg, "Bitcoin is a taco truck for whole world", "Nostr is a robot cat filled with heroin"
Yes, the similies posts get a bit much.
So far the list of least favourite nostr notes:
Platitudes
Metaphors
Bitcointwitter air replies
Sats4reposts
Except the one time I did it and the only replies I got were scammers.
It's like the only hard rule on nostr is "scammy bullshit will be on top for a while"
