Laeserin @Laeserin - 7mo
The Nostr trending algo works backward to Twitter. It nudges you to talk only about Nostr and Bitcoin, or to post platitudes, famous quotes, sexy pics, and heart-warming pictures of nature and food. It's an anti-intellectual algo. An anti-literary algo. An anti-contemplation algo. Any original, complex, or unsettling thought gets buried 6 feet down and a pile of GMs gets poured on top, to seal it in.
Vic @Vic - 7mo
I agree with this... for now. But I suspect this will gradually change over time as people use nostr in new ways, and people apply their own signal/noise algos
You have to remember that most users don't follow that many npubs, so their feed is mostly just a top-ten list and they scroll through the trending lists.
Any client with a trending list, but mostly Primal.
Nostr: Where we never say anything interesting, so that people like us.
Twitter trends at least change topic. 😂
Not really. The trending list is also based upon human recommendations. This will always face the problem that humans will shy away from reposting or recommending anything too edgy, deep, or controversial, even if that's what they prefer to read themselves.
I'm not complaining I can't trend. I trend regularly. Here's the fastest way for me to trend: Post a pretty picture of food. Post a pretty nature picture. Remind people to stack sats. Post a selfie of my face, preferably without makeup or filters and facing the light.
Upvotes don't really count toward trending. Just replies and reposts. Maybe zaps. And only replies in the first level, which is why bland things trend: they have lots of replies and the replies aren't nested because there is no interaction between the repliers.
Dan Wedge @WedgeSocial - 7mo
Theres 10k of us here we have nostr, bitcoin, and maybe 2 other interests right now. What else would the topic be? Besides this is a public square where tomatoes are tossed. not a Paris salon or nor Plato’s republic
You just told me how limited your own feed is. 🤷♀️
The algos specifically exclude deeper conversations.
Whatever. It's more about watching interesting people chat, than specifically about a topic.
It's ironic that Nostr is "technically" censorship-resistant because people are "practically" reluctant to post anything controversial or personal. It might as well just be GM bots and meme bots and anime bots. Dead Nostr.
Yeah, nobody wants to be seen zapping something someone else might not like. Conformity without end, enforced by social pressure.
LOL I'm living rent-free in this guy's head.
Whichever one Band and Primal are using (Freerse uses Primal, I think). They get very similar results, so the logic is probably similar.
node @node - 7mo
I always see your notes. It would be nicr to have lists though
Prove it by posting someplace else.
Reverse-engineering based upon results.
We need to end the mild admonishing the mild to be milder.
It just struck me that I was becoming "algo trained", like the worst sort of Tik-Toker. Should I post a picture of a beetle or a rant about wealthy men being cheapskates? That beetle post woulda done numbers, yo. Other post got me nothing but some new trolls. 🙄
The issue is that Nostr is competing with other channels I have to post stuff, same as with all other writers. I can have the same interesting convo with the same people elsewhere. Nostr has to work to get me to write something publicly and take all the heat, so it has to add some value. Npubs are taking the more interesting stuff off-Nostr to Telegram or SimpleX or whatever, or putting up walled gardens, and Nostr is stuck with the "post a picture of a pretty leaf" and "here is my software update" leftovers.
The problem is that censorship resistance only adds value if you have freedom to reach a large, interested audience. You can shout whatever you want into the forest, but if there is little response, did you even say it?
