As soon as we have the ability to discuss particular topics with npubs that are interested in those particular topics, we're basically freed.
I'd probably still occasionally post a selfie or repost someone's release note, but I already find myself spending multliple days hanging out in the same thread and the threads spawned by those threads and it's like.... We need a board. 😂
Also gets rid of the need go follow and vet so many people because you can just go chat with whoever wants to chat about whatever you want to chat about. This means someone can onboard with zero follows and just join a convo that looks interesting.
Hashtags are a hamfisted attempt to recreate boards and it's like... just create the damn boards.
What's the closest we have to boards right now?
Communities?
The ideal for me is:
1. Write post about, let's say "how having more kids makes women live longer"
2. Select the communities/group chats/forums I want to share that post too
3. Let anyone with access to any of these communities reply, read-only for everyone else
4. Make these communities fully forkable
Communities, but they don't work well because the moderators has to approve every post, rather than every npub.
And communities aren't real boards unless you have a board UI. Like, there are 3 different communities with the same topics, sometimes, and they can't find each other.
If there are 3 communities called "relays", they should be listed together in the UI, so that an npub can decide which ones he wants to follow. And they should be able to merge and fork or change ownership.
Wiki's can help solve this too.
On the page about "Relays" I want to see:
- wiki entries
- hashtags linked to this subject
- forums (group chats) that discuss this
- kind-1's about Relays
- articles about Relays
- ...
In short, displaying wiki entries is only the start
Yeah, I just had the same thought, since the Wiki has a composite page for each topic, that could serve as a jumping-off point.
Nostr allows for complex workflows because you can have a gazillion views and constellations of the same data set.
Yup!
I especially need these kind of pages for onboarding.
As in, I don't want to let users read my boring text about what relays are or make some sub-standard video about it.
I want to link to a Relay wiki that let's users discover what they are in whatever way they want.
For some that might be watching Instagram-like stories about it, for others it might be joining a forum full of golang geeks.
Yup indeed 🤦.
Group chats are the way.
Just have to clearly separate the "chat" from the "forum" side of things.
Chat is where you say GM.
Forum is where you start serious conversation threads.
have you looked at stacker news? they do a reddit style format.
Yup, they do reddit with sats.
1. Another silo
2. Sats as the only option (for interaction, algo, access, ...)
3. Their ugly UI as the only option
4. They will rug you
There's already a Nostr client like that, called Oddbeans.
I'm talking more about old-school bulletin boards. An improvement on communities.
Anyone using this one
And, like, let's talk about release notes.
Most of the people you want to see it don't see it and lots of people who see it are like, whatever that is, some software thingy...
So, you have to repost and repost and repost... 🙄
Just give us a Nostr Releases board to lurk on and basta.
When you say you already find yourself hanging out in the same thread, what do you mean exactly and which clients are you doing this on?
Asking because it sounds cool!
You usually can't see the busiest threads on trendlists. They're just some never-ending discussion some small account started and more more people strolled into.
Is this a hard algo to implement maybe?
As in, does it take significant computation to crawl through all those replies on replies?
Still I'd pay for that compute if it can give the deepest recent convo-threads (especially with WoT).
nostr:npub1nxa4tywfz9nqp7z9zp7nr7d4nchhclsf58lcqt5y782rmf2hefjquaa6q8 , just an idea 😜
I don't know. They all say they check for this, but it doesn't seem to work.
GM threads going deeper than I could ever imagine then lol 😂
They're like impromptu chatrooms, so probably. 🤷♀️
I guess Odell's "GM" is the equivalent of "Odell has entered the chat." 😂
One level deep, still trending: nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqmjxss3dld622uu8q25gywum9qtg4w4cv4064jmg20xsac2aam5nqyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qpq03axpmlsyux5t9taep3lprcznjq8aytd2w0m4xssch72ka87qg2s4es5a5
I never see GM follow up convo's.
