I think many left. Most people don’t engage, this is the same no matter the platform. Plus, people like to share niche ideas here and it’s hard to find someone who might agree, unless it’s an op...
Honest?
It's also the nature of the beast. the whole concept of an endless feed trains every single one of us into a race to the bottom.
"Gotta pump more content so I don't get buried..." not even realizing that everyone else is doing the same, and soon enough, even our own notes are competing with our own notes by de facto.
I hate the fact that all of these platforms, including nostr clients, are built to only showcase new/latest.
There is no real discovery that way.
There is no evergreen nor depth.
I'm old enough to remember when my mom, MY MOM, was the 1 who got me to use facebook cuz she was in it. It had become the only way I could be in touch with her as we lived thousands of miles away from each other & long distance calls were billed BY THE MINUTE!!
Back then, there was NO FEED. There was only "Walls" and each wall had a directory of "friends."
If you wanted to see what your "friends" were sharing, you visited their walls.
If you wanted to brighten their day, you WROTE ON THEIR WALLS.
As much as I despise facebook now & have always hated Zuckerberg, had it not been for him, my mom & I wouldn't have been able to communicate as often as I was blessed to & had the privilege to do while she was still alive.
All of these platforms would improve 1000X if they eliminated their FEEDS.
There should be only one main feed: new user introductions,
& one side feed that shows the users you have chosen to follow (which you came to know from the introduction feed) with new note statuses:
(our Icon, username, an online/offline status circle & another circle denoting they have updated "their wall" with a new note).
This would open up nostr clients to create "groups" instead of having to rely on hellthreads.
Especially now when every client has killed hellthread notifications.
Sorry for the lengthy reply note.
I just don't understand why the feed model continues to be the one and only model.
This is what killed the internet dream of the 90's.
It's also the nature of the beast. the whole concept of an endless feed trains every single one of us into a race to the bottom.
"Gotta pump more content so I don't get buried..." not even realizing that everyone else is doing the same, and soon enough, even our own notes are competing with our own notes by de facto.
I hate the fact that all of these platforms, including nostr clients, are built to only showcase new/latest.
There is no real discovery that way.
There is no evergreen nor depth.
I'm old enough to remember when my mom, MY MOM, was the 1 who got me to use facebook cuz she was in it. It had become the only way I could be in touch with her as we lived thousands of miles away from each other & long distance calls were billed BY THE MINUTE!!
Back then, there was NO FEED. There was only "Walls" and each wall had a directory of "friends."
If you wanted to see what your "friends" were sharing, you visited their walls.
If you wanted to brighten their day, you WROTE ON THEIR WALLS.
As much as I despise facebook now & have always hated Zuckerberg, had it not been for him, my mom & I wouldn't have been able to communicate as often as I was blessed to & had the privilege to do while she was still alive.
All of these platforms would improve 1000X if they eliminated their FEEDS.
There should be only one main feed: new user introductions,
& one side feed that shows the users you have chosen to follow (which you came to know from the introduction feed) with new note statuses:
(our Icon, username, an online/offline status circle & another circle denoting they have updated "their wall" with a new note).
This would open up nostr clients to create "groups" instead of having to rely on hellthreads.
Especially now when every client has killed hellthread notifications.
Sorry for the lengthy reply note.
I just don't understand why the feed model continues to be the one and only model.
This is what killed the internet dream of the 90's.