There’s something satisfying about Nostr feeds being deterministic: if you sign in on different Nostr clients or different devices, you most likely will get the same exact feed for a given moment of the day. It’s true even for different moments of the day: if you scroll long enough you will encounter the old set of posts, minus a few new ones for the last X hours.
It’s satisfying because you know the feed is not gamed. That this is the raw, unmanipulated experience. Unlike something like X which increasingly show you garbage that plays on our worst instincts.
On the other hand, once the amount of content on Nostr blows up, some filters will likely be needed. It’d be cool if you can craft your own feed algorithms based on a human-readable language, or a set of commonly-defined control knobs. Something like:
1. Prioritizes posts from people I regularly interact with (with weights I can go in and adjust)
2. Prioritizes posts that have some minimum number of likes/comments from the people I follow
3. For freshness: Occasionally surface posts from accounts from my extended network (friends of friends), provided that they pass some level of quality control (e.g. account older than Y months, minimum likes, etc.).
And you can keep finetuning your algorithms as you go along. Have a few that you quickly switch between. Share your algorithms with others, etc.
hugohanoi /
npub1qp…6yn58
2024-08-20 09:15:40
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npub1qp302p7ry80x8xpcafm4d4szpxvzy8r70lyveg39gk0xgycwu35s06yn58Published at
2024-08-20 09:15:40Event JSON
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