I don't get what's the issue some people are bringing up with social media people discovery on nostr.
In all social media throughout my life, I "discovered" accounts by first following companies that I liked (in my case, it was game companies) to get updates from them (so this is real life discovery), and I check their posts, see people reply, discuss with some of those replies, and eventually they may lead to me checking their profile and following them.
My circle of friends, if I had any on social, would interact with what I'm interacting, and vice versa, and the same is done on the other side / the other individual I'm talking with, and the network gets bigger.
I've also used hashtags to find people to follow as if, if they interest me, and heck I've also search for specific keywords too.
I've already seen so much more useful systems created on nostr, like sets, or seeing the timeline of another or a group, both of which are really cool and created out of a perceived discovery problem, when there isn't? It's cool, but chill, nothing is broken x3 (well, maybe relays being too dumb, but that's a separate issue).
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I keep trying to use hashtags specifically because there's no algo on Nostr and I frequently see people in my feed asking if there is a X or Y community around. I hate hashtags on posts, but nothing you can do about it if you want to be discovered by people and make connections.
Sure it may be cringe, but it's useful. It's tags in blog or news posts on sites.
Now the question about making hashtags not cringe, that can be done. Example for a nostr client: hashtags found at the end of a post would be hidden in the UI, where you'd tap to see them / expose them, and they'd remain functional.
Interesting, maybe a NIP only for hashtags?
Maybe, but what I meant is client side hiding it
So let's say I update deg mods (no nip, just a client/site function/UI update, and you'd #see this post there, but...
#you #wont #see #these #these #hashtags #unless #you #click #but #youd #see #that #one #hashtag #above
(Yes, this example was stupid to write xD)
that could work better than the communities I think