Algos are the last thing I want on nostr.
Even with a decent amount of followers, it often feels like I’m shouting into the void. That’s OK, but it’s really going to suck when algos just make popular people more popular.
I suppose algos could be used to boost newbie and mid-level accounts only, but I really doubt that’s what people are going to build or ask for.
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I skipped the entire Web 2.0 social media space for the last 10 to 15 years because I didn’t like the things that it incentivizes. I really want to help build real community and empower regular people to have a voice and ideally make real lasting friendships.
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I sure hope they take a different approach with algos here, allow them to be completely customizable per user to the point that my algo is giving me a completely different feed than yours even if we follow similar people, having different interests means showcasing some of their content and ignoring other parts of the one you don’t care for. But like I said completely customizable by the user on the client level never the protocol level. I’m sure everyone would be happy if something like that existed..
that's the whole point
broad range of algorithms don't centralize among popular accounts, they allow you to very specifically find the type of content you are interested in and your tribe
algorithms have a bad reputation because legacy web needed to have a single generic algorithm that would maximize for revenue and would apply to everybody, they can't give you control over it
and that's how we win
playing a game they CAN'T play
Yup! 🎯
