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. πŸ˜„

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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.
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. πŸ‘Œβ˜ΊοΈ
Here's the idea you gave me.
[ mslm dvlpmnt ]'s avatar [ mslm dvlpmnt ]
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). image 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. image And of course, the synchronization from and to the local file and from and to the relays works just like with the bookmarks. image 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. image 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. image ... and you land in the view of the Tribe Timelines image 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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