Seriously, it can't be done, search is a big data business and that can't be done cheaply, even worse it is a natural monopoly, whatever search engine has the most compute will get the most users and if they advertise they get the most money to get more compute.
Nostr users who can't make peace with this will just leave, there is no such thing as decentralized search.
quotingI think there is an important point here. We do need both user and content discovery to work better on nostr. Centralized platforms do a lot to help boost folks who’s content or accounts are getting engagement. Make an amazing video and you’ll get millions of views in tiktok as a nobody. Write the witty tweet and it goes viral.
note1pch…wege
Specifically they also do a lot so that new people find content and people to follow. When new users post they get engagement and response very quickly. Nostr does some of this.
A year ago interviewed folks I found on Tumblr who had talked about scuttlebutt, but had gone back to tumblr. Their main reason for returning to tumblr rather than scuttlebutt was because they got comments and reposts with tumblr.
Engagement matters.
When I show non-crypto folks nostr they often go away because they don’t find their people or content. Not because of zaps or the design of the apps or the way nostr works. They don’t and aren’t going to care about Bitcoin. For nostr to succeed we need to pay more attention to those early days from deciding they’re going to try nostr to it becoming a habit to use every day.