mleku on Nostr: it should be obvious but making a trending feed for nostr instantly narrows it into a ...
it should be obvious but making a trending feed for nostr instantly narrows it into a twitter bullshitfest
it doesn't seem to be obvious to some people but i saw it right at the beginning, and this "circle jerk" appearance of a small set of popular nostr client devs grated on my gears so hard it made me mad, and i've heard other people say the same thing
so, i have a proposal
let's petition, and shame, to add to the weight of this, how nostr onboarding is being impeded because of this centralisation of the feed by these idiots using trending indicators to filter feeds
it should not be default, at least!
this is not twitter, and will never compete with twitter, the whole point of it is that it is so much more than twitter, threads, facebook, instagram, soundcloud, bandcamp, youtube, all rolled into one, just that right now, those marginal use cases are being swamped by this idiotic reinforcement of popularity as a means to more popularity
my personal interpretation is that primal and the other "trending feed" clients are the main cause of this
not really much that can be done about it even if it is damaging the variety and onboarding, maybe we should put together some concise and cogent points for miljan (npub16c0…6nvr) and the other "tredning feed" client devs to understand that they are making the curve into a hockey stick?
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