jb55 @jb55 - 2d
i think we finally have a good plan for user interests and topical microblogging. super excited to share it once its ready
tanel - 2d
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basic idea: users express interests in certain topics. when you create a topical post it only posts to people who are interested in that topic among your followers. This will allow you to talk about niche interests without annoying people who follow you and are not interested in that topic. nostr:note1cpa99hz7ntuupnfkhsgywa3rxtefz4texjwtwtap54pwq5ftvnzqk7w8hz
Adding a hashtag wouldn’t filter it by default from people who are not interested in that post. Its a new kind and is a part of our new topic communities spec, where you will be able to post to open, unmoderated, reddit-style communities as well by including a title.
10b66 - 2d
That would be interesting 🤙
you just posted to me somehow
yes this is where interests come in. If you follow a topic community (like /r/bitcoin) we can infer you are interested in the bitcoin topic, so we could then show bitcoin-related microblogs from people you follow
97c70 - 2d
Are you doing something like reposts? It would make sense to wrap something in another event and apply a topic. NIP 32 would also do the trick (at the risk of not being able to find the referenced event)
no its a new thing
Also this wouldn’t work because the original post would still show up for clients who aren’t aware of the spec
same
If you do a post with a hashtag, your followers will still see it indiscriminately.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 2d
So you post to unmoderated topics? And followers would see these cause they follow you but they can unsubscribe from the topic or jump into the topic to see all of it?
why are you trying to police the way I post things? my posting style is just who I am. I talk about things that I am working on. that's literally all I do on here. I have long accepted the fact that our goals are just different than other clients, especially around communities. we will just have to see which community ideas take off and which ones don't.
lots of different ways you can present it but yeah basically. the biggest thing is that when posting to topic communities you have some guarantees that only the people interested in that topic will end up seeing it. This is just the microblogging portion of topic communities, we are also working on an unmoderated subreddit-style version of the spec with titles and top posts, etc. we're leveraging nip22 and nip73 a lot for this one
I didn't go into details because it might change while we are implementing it.
The Daniel ⚡️ and 84 sats @daniel - 1d
How is this different from subreddits?
jb55 @jb55 - 22h
this isn’t an algorithm? its an option for users to post to more specific topics so that new people can find content that isn’t just bitcoin
yeah way better imo
like their communities feature? We are *kinda* basing it off this but around topics instead of moderated communities
jb55 @jb55 - 21h
great observation! this will be a part of our subreddit spec, but theres a subtle difference: you might not want to post a topical microblog to a subreddit. also subreddit posts have titles, etc. you will be able to create both types of posts simply by adding a title or not. The latter is posting to a group for all to see, the former is just for your followers. still working through the UX on this, but they are subtly different things.
This is still a rough sketch from our last meeting though, things may change. This was just a first pass based on a long discussion. These were originally separate ideas that we are trying to umbrella under the same spec, so we may simply this further.
