Obviously, people here care about what those people have to say, but everyone follows them, already, so the trending list adds no information, and many people arriving probably don't care about what they have to say and see the trending list and assume this is just a shrine to a few personalities and a place to say incomprehensible texts full of naughty words.

Perhaps we really can come up with something "better", that doesn't merely list the things everyone has already seen, but that aids discovery of interesting conversations. This is merely a statistical problem. We will think about it. 🤔

Ok, construct an "onboarding" list for yesterday that you believe would work well for newcomers, that's a very needed thing that nobody solved yet.

I think @PABLOF7z and @Don't Believe The Vibe 🌱🍋🍊 are already working on it. Can they be in on the bounty?

You assume people are constantly watching their feeds. I don't. I get a lot of value from the trending.

No, most people look at trending, is what I assume. Some of the clients have it really prominent. But if trending just looks like what their feed would look like anyway.... 🤷‍♀️ Who isn't following Jack, Gigi, Lyn, Odell, Calle, and Carla, or having their content reposted ad nauseum in their feed? The trending list seems to mostly be a condensing of our feeds, so that each post only appears once, rather than 58 times. 😂 So, that is value added.

I've created an onboarding relay "theforest", as I started with lists, but they were too static. @npub1cpst...8j5e has the idea for rings.

It needs to be something more dynamic, at any rate, but not necessarily an algo. The ring idea is something inbetween, like a group-edited list.

Another problem I ran into with lists is that they're limited in length and unidimensional.