Now we're talking! It's algorithm time. Trending is an attention mechanism. It directs individual and collective attention which we all kind of like because you know, shared experience and whatnot. But what kind of experience? How should all that wonderful attention be directed? Obviously like eve...

I've noticed this. Something is off. Not right.

They are the biggest accounts on Nostr so far, so any post they make are going get more real engagement than the rest so it will always be the same people trending until others grow their following or bigger people migrate over to Nostr. They are also the same accounts many Nostr Clients recommend p...

Coincidental

its because theres only 20 people in nostr the rest are bots and people from fedi

It takes more time for it to become really attractive to use

One day , I didn't see you in there ! I almost did a note about that !

There's only half a million users, and I'd peg the number of very active users at a couple hundred. Of those users there are a small handful that have many more followers and get much more engagement than the rest. So they're always trending.

Yep

Randomness is a necessary spice

Imagine if any developer could easily create different types of trending algorithms that are immediately available to all nostr apps. And now imagine if users could freely choose which algorithms they want to use to discover new content. Heck, they can choose multiple at the same time and paginate ...

beepboop?!?!

It shouldn't really be called trending. It should be called Primal's Picks. Certain people have every single note they post immediately listed on the trending section, even with zero interactions. It's kind of weird to be honest.