You know what I also love about Nostr? There are all these different bubbles here, like various friend circles or groups. If you sketch them out schematically, they're basically these clusters of users who interact a ton with each other.
If you really keep an eye out, you'll notice that every now and then, two big bubbles merge together. You can totally see it happening. A pack leader from one bubble connects with the pack leader from another, and all of a sudden, new followers from Bubble A start following folks from Bubble B, and the other way around.
I always find that kinda stuff fascinating. It's like in ancient Arabia, two tribes teaming up because two people from different ones got married. π
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But who are the clan leaders?
You can't see them straight up, but you can feel it. Spokespeople for a certain worldview or generation, pack leaders with soft skills. Folks that other people flock to like moths to a flame.
How can we adapt to this?
So nostr has created cyber bedouins?
Not exactly. But human behavior is more natural here.
I think it is heavily wired in us for a lot of reasons. But the obvious one for me are:
- tribal/sense of community
- safety/belonging
- blindly following the herd (bandwagon)
- curiosity
All can be mitigated by conscious choice by asking the "why" and if "who" you follow align your values.
It would be interesting to see how long those followers stay (retention) and the bots. πβΊοΈ
You just gave me an idea for a feature right there.
You developers operate on a wavelength I'll never be able to tune into π
Here's the idea you gave me.
Coming up next: NoorNote Tribes
After I have already introduced the feature rich follow and bookmark lists in #NoorNote, the next release will include a new feature based on NIP 51 lists: Tribes. These are essentially loose sets of various users that you can group into specific groups (Tribes). It does not matter whether you already follow them or not.
The definition of Tribes happens similarly to bookmarks in Folders (categories).
For this, you can define a Tribe Folder (=category name) with Tribes and combine different users in a comma separated list with Members and assign them to a specific Tribe. You can also just enter npubs.
When you click on the Tribe Folder, you then see your Tribe Members as user cards.
And of course, the synchronization from and to the local file and from and to the relays works just like with the bookmarks.
As usual, you can set in the settings whether you want to handle the synchronization manually or let NoorNote take over the work for you.
WHAT IS THIS GOOD FOR?
Well, I can imagine many use cases for Tribes in the future. The first and simplest case would be a timeline consisting only of the posts from the people in a Tribe. That is already implemented, but not yet obviously accessible, because this feature is still in alpha state and I want to observe it over a longer period. And here comes another feature that you do not know about yet: You can also access certain URLs via the search function.
For this, click on Search or fire CMD+K on Mac and enter '/tribes' in the search bar.
... and you land in the view of the Tribe Timelines
At the top in the tab bar, you see your defined Tribes and below that the timeline consisting of posts from the members of this Tribe.
As mentioned, Tribes are coming in the next release so you can already experiment with them.
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For this, you can define a Tribe Folder (=category name) with Tribes and combine different users in a comma separated list with Members and assign them to a specific Tribe. You can also just enter npubs.

And of course, the synchronization from and to the local file and from and to the relays works just like with the bookmarks.
As usual, you can set in the settings whether you want to handle the synchronization manually or let NoorNote take over the work for you.
WHAT IS THIS GOOD FOR?
Well, I can imagine many use cases for Tribes in the future. The first and simplest case would be a timeline consisting only of the posts from the people in a Tribe. That is already implemented, but not yet obviously accessible, because this feature is still in alpha state and I want to observe it over a longer period. And here comes another feature that you do not know about yet: You can also access certain URLs via the search function.
For this, click on Search or fire CMD+K on Mac and enter '/tribes' in the search bar.
... and you land in the view of the Tribe Timelines
At the top in the tab bar, you see your defined Tribes and below that the timeline consisting of posts from the members of this Tribe.
As mentioned, Tribes are coming in the next release so you can already experiment with them.Wow you really did it!
BTW I tried noornote on my Linux mint machine and I got the app image and I couldn't get it to run. I didn't get a chance to debug it as I only had a few minutes to play. Will try to investigate more later today
What Distro are you using?
I think it's Debian but I'm not sure...
then just use the .deb package. Double click on it.