fiatjaf on nostr

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I just created an account on a new social networking platform today. I did it because I heard about it on the internet, no one I knew invited me. When I joined I was presented with a feed of a bunch of random posts from random people talking about topics that didn't interest me.

Was that platform called "Nostr"?
Or is that the default expected experience of any person who joins a new social network just for experimenting it?

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What's the app I want to try too

I would guess that even for some Azerbaijani shepherd who just got their first mobile phone / Facebook account, there will be some combination of geolocation, device information and other bits of info that the algorithm will use to at least provide some kind of "starter pack" of posts. But Facebook...

DasFrettchen · 76w

My first experience was something like that, boring topics about social stuff. The second was X and it was great, a lot of bitcoin content but it quickly turned to shit because of the violence and political stuff in the algo. Nostr is my third, it is getting perfect day by day, the zaps fail most...

AK 👸🏻 · 76w

Yes, it is Nostr. I can from Fedi. I'm most definitely on the experimenting side of it. If the experience is good, I might stay for a little longer but will never commit to staying forever.

deleted account · 76w

You're too socially inept to build your own community so you sign up for a platform hoping to find one there. What you're getting is a whole bunch of people too socially inept to build their community either.

Hamidreza · 76w

I think it's default expected experience

Rizful.com · 76w

The only thing worse than "automatic follows" is freshly booting up #damus or #primal and finding just "nothing"... just loading content, and nothing loads. This was my entire experience using #nostr during 2024. I literally tried to use Nostr a few times last year and just gave up at this first thi...

Rizful.com · 76w

Also, in the future, people besides BTC maxis will actually use Nostr, so at that point, we can just auto-follow whoever are the best looking and/or most famous people on Nostr, and then we will have created a produce that average morons finally want to use... This might sound like a joke but I thin...

Yousef Abdullah · 76w

I know that the concept of Nostr is different from the central platforms, but let's be more realistic, every Noster client, whether it is an application or a website, needs to be more suitable for new users, as they come from platforms that offer them a lot of customization, and I think this part is...

that's why facebook was so obsessed on getting new users to connect with 10 friends in their first week. they discovered an extremely strong correlation between this and long-term retention. classic example of what drives network products

knorrium · 76w

seeding the onboarding experience with random content that you fine tune later is better than showing an empty state and is an acceptable default experience IMO If you joined Usenet, you would need to know what groups to subscribe to IRC? sift through the list of public channels or get invited to ...

treasuredan · 76w

Maybe the automatic follows could be customized by topic? A new user could pick the follows in the categories that are of interest to them .

I must know... did you trend? 👀😅 Random is the most common experience that I have seen. Preset follows are not so good because you have to be reactive rather than proactive to make it better. I remember trying some platform called Vero. It started out mostly blank and it was 10x harder to f...

[email protected] 🥜 · 76w

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