When you go to the internet to find things, do you really search for "italian things" or for the things that interest you?
Today we talked about search note15djknj3kh6szcj82pp6sm98vk3pw40fg8ajsx8mrpfg3zadyeqhqfmsl2n, what about language filtering (that can be a search params, too)? Nostr now is english centric, but with the progressive expansion a language filter will help newcomers to discover new content and raise the signal-noise ratio.
I found this PR about the matter https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/182 by #[0] and I think the tag is the right approach, because can be used on other kind types, if needed.
Ideas?
Discussion
I think this (mine) was a bad argument, but I have a better one now: why hasn't this language stuff ever been a problem on Twitter?
I guess I assumed twitter has a lot of fancy algorithms for their curated content
Contents powered by algorithms + click to translate?
Contents are not powered by algorithms. They literally show stuff from people you follow. My timeline has most posts in English about Bitcoin, some posts in Portuguese from Brazilians, and sometimes Turkish, Italian and Russian from Bitcoin people that decided to interact with their fellow countrymen. I just skip these weird languages. Twitter does nothing to prevent me from seeing them.
it doesn't prevent it from your follows. it does prevent it from the twitter general content it seems. like if you sign up for new account and have no follows you will only see your own language.
I guess i think its higher signal if you can filter which language you see from your follows (especially if you normally skip those weird languages)
No usually. But if I enter a "space" with a lot of content I would like the option to filter by the languages I understand or because a specific lang is related to some contents/culture I'm interested in.
Metadata can be useful.