I'm an idealist I know, but I was kind of hoping Nostr would help teach people curation. I think it's a valuable skill to have, and the more people have it, the better off society will be. To this end I think being able to create lists of followers is more important than algorithmic feeds, but I understand it's not an either or, and we need the algorithms to help onboard people to Nostr. Am enjoying following along with your feed, thank you!

This still looks like a black box, even if you can move the sliders on its lid.

I hope eventually you might agree you should take a break from using npubs I'm aware of View quoted note →

Agreed. Was just using as a visual example

If they are fully transparent and able to be switched off then I think they could be useful for discovering new content or notes that have been missed. Being in Australia, there are a lot of notes posted from people in other time zones while I’m asleep which are easily missed so an algorithm could help with that for example.

That would be really cool

it probably doesn't matter because i'm not on primal but even those... nope. idk what is best. I'd like the ability to rate limit posts of certain npubs. so far that is all I lack because I make my own feed by who I follow.

Where can I find these settings? Primal iOS App?

Take a look at www.graze.social

Better than legacy social media platforms, at least this provides transparency to the user and control

It’s tempting but i still prefer a chronologically timeline of events as they occur without any sort of manipulation .

Algos are absolutely critical. But the above topic based solution isn't the answer. That feed is basically no different than a follower-driven feed and is too effort intensive. The algo should auto-curate for the user based on real time user interaction hooked to a neural net. The algo's TUNING should allow the following inputs: 👎 Bad post (show less posts like this) ♻️ Rejuvenate (seek fresh content when algo gets stale, huge issue) 🔇 Hyper-poster weightings (to thin out overactive posters) 🕒 Dissemination time (max days ago to fetch posts) 💸 Ad frequency. (ties into monetization) ❓ Other tuning factors?

Interesting.

What tool is that?

Nah. Chronologic order way better. I can navigate my chaos. And if I miss 1 good note I'll find a similar one. Or the most advanced version of that note 2 days later. I don't have FOMO. We are conmected neurons.