Good to hear!, what is your client?

The analogy is chilling but a good read. I think it’s gonna boil down to clients with principles and integrated with smarts features, business models and use cases that will generate the returns as well as ppl in the team that can look into user adoption Vs. cheap thrills.

I’m neither a fan of ads not VCs, but

- On adverts - ads are not bad, but when adverts dominate how developers built, tracks users, manipulates users then it’s no good. There are ideas floating around on how the good is absorb and bad hurried.

- On VCs - capitalism is not bad but 99% shitty and milking it at everyone’s expense but there would be that 1% who would genuinely help developers and builders

But more important, users will eventually dominate social media so slightly different from the email concept above for e.g high influencing individuals and clients can work on marketing partnership, relays can be exclusive.

Relays can also become channels based on interests (aka your satellite/cable tv channel selection packages who know). If there are marketplaces built, clients don’t determine which users have access as users own their own IDs, but clients can make it more attractive to use their platform. There are just so many what if’s right now - still too early and many areas yet to be explored

🌆 goodnight & pv

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right now at coffee shop 📚👩‍💻 studying for class tonight - topic ‘Southwest Airlines’ and how they were the pioneers of fun travel, but what the hec happened in Dec 2022 and why on earth are they still using a legacy system ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't know, but I wouldn't want people limited by the friction of adding a dynamic new topic to an official taxonomy. I suppose #tags makes sense. There may be NIPs with ideas on this. I'd prefer to follow someone else's lead. I like the general concept but I'm not really interested in the details of how, I just want to do it.

Yup, like Twitter lists.

Would love a Tweetdeck clone

So I think being able to browse "relay global" is a nice feature, and being able to direct posts to specific relays is a nice hack, but even while offering those features I don't think they are how to handle different topics. I'll then design the UX to handle topics the other two ways, and leave those other things as manual override features.

The idea of community hub relays initally seemed reasonable to me. But the more I think it through, the more I like the other two options. Managing relays for that purpose seems like a pain/nightmare and makes it really hard to follow things. I think if you want to keep topics very separate, use a different identity, and if you only want them separate in an advisory way, use topic tags. That's where I'm at right now anyways.

So I'm hearing three different kinds of answers (maybe 4 but I don't understand the 4th one yet):

1) Use different identities for different topics/communities.

2) Use different relay sets for different topics/communities.

3) Apply topic tags to posts and let followers choose what tags they want to see.

Were there others that I missed?

Y'all see them now?

I am writing a public article that is partially about Nostr.

What are some easy-to-miss Nostr details that would be worth mentioning? Audience will be a mix of bitcoiners and general macro/investing audience. Mostly I sm writing for the latter- people who may not have heard about it yet.

I already included a Nostr section in my latest private research report, and included a slide about Nostr in a guest lecture at Princeton last week. I am spinning up my research on it over time, with public articles and broader reach being the next phase.

I was there, 3000 years ago.