If you had to prioritize, search or zaps first?

And yet the Internet was never supposed to be centralized; this is what began the downfall.

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And the search came from a company, Summize, which had a real time social search engine which they launched using twitter data. It really made twitter work. Buying summize was one of the critical early decisions at twitter which has been forgotten but was so important.

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Can a search index of post content be decentralized yet reliable and fast? Is the index the right place to slice the problem? Is a centralized search service the only practical solution? I agree search is essential, and at present the search available in amethyst is great but unpredictable.

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Nostr is so cool, if you decide to dev something, you will FOMO on other tools 😂

Concur. But calling discovery the "only" problem that centralization solved makes it sound like a minor problem. It's the principle obstacle. Start with discovery first when you take on the decentralization challenge.

Divide and conquer is how we win. Without search, nostr is indivisible at scale. It remains one big community that falls under its own weight. The "other stuff" is a multiplier, it requires social to be greater than zero. GM ☀️ View quoted note →

Isn't this still a problem? The first thing people usually see is Jack when coming to Nostr, and fumbling their way through clients. If I didn't know better - I would assume he's the king of Nostr. The ability to discover things is... Moving slowly. But at least it's moving. NGL... A lot of people only stay because of "celebrities" - basically Jack and Snowden. And others use them like a small shield of clout protecting parts of their slow progress from ridicule. "Oh this sux..." "Yeah but we got rich and famous people that might talk to you to keep it alive." That's terrible. Not sustainable. (Imo) -- personally, I mostly stay because it's not mainstream, and the 'like' buttons can be any emoji... And it's not character limited. View quoted note →

Zaps are stupid.

Hmmm a suggested user list with the same 20 people? Sounds familiar 😂

Using clients without trending lists and recommended users list fixes inFLUenza and king making crap.

I wonder if nostr search should still be centralized for its efficiency advantages, but completely open source so that anyone could spin up an alternative at any time.

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Lmao why?

Search.

100%. Search indexing and seo for nostr content does basically not exist. While we're worried about how to increase discoverability ON nostr we're not paying attention of discoverability OF nostr itself.

If we start indexing the web based clients will get negative score by the crawlers for "duplicate content". This will be something very interesting to watch and a b..ch to solve. Whichever client gets notes indexed first will get positive score and each client after that negative score.

I'm still a relatively new developer. Beyond algorithms, what resources would to recommend to someone like me to study so try to contribute you this area?

So much alpha lol

It wasn't that hard to get on to NOSTR, but I am also a bitcoiner who understands the concepts of nodes and private keys. Maybe that makes a difference.

NOSTR struggles primarily due to weak network effects and nuanced benefits. Although I think it achieves its goal perfectly as a protocol for freedom centric communication. We have to be careful what we wish for - sometimes things are amazing just the way they are.