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Interest (hashtag) based feeds are so useless for onboarding. You have a handful of spammers spamming pretty much every hashtag. I don't see any way around that other than just following some people.

Kind of sad that a few people are ruining first time experience for everyone. Same with Rizful that constantly spams new users about lighthing addresses. Scum.

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Chris Krause · 18w

Rizful works great. They only do that to npubs which don't have a LN wallet yet.

il_lost_ · 18w

Interest feeds are based on WOT, but maybe based on those hashtags you can find people or lists of people, based on location and interests

Lucia Ferreira · 18w

Yeah, hashtag feeds are a mess right now—spam drowns out real convos, and bad actors exploit new users. Reminds me of how Iran’s regime floods info channels to suppress dissent, while protesters still find ways to organize. There’s always a tension between open access and noise. https://the...

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 · 18w

Those hashtag feeds are built from shit relays, that's why it's bad. Try it on wisp and lmk what you think! Had to build a search engine first to make it work (ie wot filtered, ranked by engagement and author trust etc)

That's one of the many weaknesses of hashtags, they're so easy to pollute.

Corey San Diego · 18w

nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqelpt5w nostr:nprofile1qqsw9n8heusyq0el9f99tveg7r0rhcu9tznatuekxt764m78ymqu36csxjejf idea: Mute posts with a certain number of hashtags, set default to 3 or 4.

Its what happens to hashtags, Mastodon seems to have it worse. I've throught of adding a max hashtags filter client side to make it more readable and filter out those with 10+ hashtags on thier notes. But it's not really a solution