PerlStalker on Nostr: Social medial platforms like X, Bluesky, and nostr all suffer from the same weakness. ...

Social medial platforms like X, Bluesky, and nostr all suffer from the same weakness. They all assume that, if you follow someone, you want to see everything that person says about everything. That's seldom true, even offline. Often a person you go to for one topic is not someone whose opinions you want to see on other topics.

As an example, back when I was watching the NFL, I followed a couple of people on Twitter because I really liked their takes on the NFL. They were diving into statistical analysis in a way I hadn't seen before and they made it fun. That said, I had zero interest in anything they had to say about politics.

Here's another example. I'm really into Minecraft. A number of the developers were on Twitter. I really wanted to see what they were saying about Minecraft but I couldn't care less about their environmental activism or even what they had for dinner.

It would be great to be able to say I want to follow this person but only for this topic or I want to follow that person for everything except this other topic. Maybe I want their takes on nostr and bitcoin but not rugby.

On the sender side, this would require 1) that every time a person posts, they use some sort of topic specifier (like a hashtag) and/or 2) an LLM that picks up on the context and adds the topic that it guesses.

From the receiver side, the easy default is to show everything (which is what most people expect). Then when the sender posts something from a topic the receiver doesn't want to see, they could add that topic to the filter. Then posts that match the filter aren't shown in the main feed. (They should still be visible if the receiver visits the sender's profile.)

I'm not sure how reasonable this would be in practice but I think it would go a long way to allowing a person to curate their feeds to see exactly what they want.

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