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A Nostr client with no concept of "follows", you just get shown some content from selected relays, then if you like -- or if you read (your local client would know by your clicking or how much time your spent on each thread, no one else) -- that person gets added to a dynamic ranking of possible interests, so you start to softly "follow" them (by which I mean the client fetches their notes specifically from their relays). As you interact with new notes and new people that dynamic list changes.
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Hard no on copying what TikTok does. Let's aim for conscious interaction, not unconscious interaction. Let's tend to our higher self, not our lower self.
Is that what TikTok does? I imagined like they would push "similar content from random people" onto you, not "content from the same people".
I say yes. I think people sometimes forget the nature of the openness of Nostr. Unconscious interaction based applications can coexist with conscious interaction based applications.
As other have pointed out, there are advantages to having this approach that isn't brain rot. Unconscious interaction does a good job recommending users to follow, expanding your network, which is even more needed on Nostr (especially when starting out).
E.g.:
1) Start out on Nostr -> social network doesn't exist
2) Use unconscious interaction based application -> create good base of initial users to follow
3) Stop using application and move to conscious interaction based application -> no brain rot
Isn’t this how you create a bubble? With following I can create my bubble and am aware of that. With this TikTok algorithm you’ll create it for me and it’s hard to change for me at some point.
