One of the most interesting possibilities with a robust tagging system on #nostr would be allowing users to see the discovery chain on posts.
For example, I think a fellow Monero user brought me to that retarded FUD thread by @Super Testnet the other day, and my replies helped bring other Monero users in. I wonder how many users found that thread directly from my npub, but what's even harder to find out without automated tagging is, how many users found that thread indirectly using my npub and the one that brought me there, in network effect? I mean, if I asked "who remembers finding that thread through me," someone might remember, but if the npub that brought me there asked the same thing, anyone who found the thread through me might not know that also means they found it through the person I found it through. That data could be represented in automated tags.
I believe my impact on network effects is bigger than you can imagine for such a small npub. Like, close to npubs with hundreds of thousands of followers - because those npubs don't even try, they just echo chamber themselves while I actually use global feeds and hashtags and stuff, sifting through spam to find posts from actual nostr users. This is why I'm so heavily targeted and suppressed, the network effect dynamics create panic and desperation in propagandists. My occasional work sifting through hashtags is also specifically why @Derek Ross was so angry when I called him out for his bullshit about hashtag spam filtering. People like Derek Ross cannot handle letting hashtags be full of posts from actual nostr users instead of spam, because that would boost nostr's network effect far more than I do.
Login to reply
Replies (1)
Note: this isn't the most tag-specific use of a tagging system. You could do this without any new tags. You'd just need a more comprehensive database of nevents than anyone is known to have right now, but then you'd be able to analyze that data for the same results.