Whats the point tho... Fragmentation just means more division, less people interacting with other POVs, more polarization, thats exactly what legacy SM algorithms did... Its just more echo chambers, i get it, echo chambers are comfortable, but they are pointless.
Imagine tommorrow there are 1 million new muslim Nostr users. If everyone is locked into a node of 100 users, that is no different than noornode today. The reach is the same, we all have an audience of 100.
Surely the idea should be to bring larger followings to a central node so that we can actually reach people and have an audience for podsystems for example.
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"Imagine tommorrow there are 1 million new muslim Nostr users"
That must be hallucinations from the fasting.
I think the underlying assumption I'd challenge is why was "reach" the default metric that we're using for success? Should increased 'reach' be our end goal with nostr? Yes, you might only be able to reach 100 people on nostr (this would actually be a vast improvement for many on LSM, but anyway), but the difference we should strive for is that those 100 connections should be more meaningful. The concept of people having followers should also be examined. I don't think the internet was supposed to be this way and I think there are much more beneficial ways of organizing communication in cyber. This is what nostr devs and users should be thinking about it (they are already, just good to reiterate)
