I tend to agree and I wish

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Listr is the best way to curate, organize, and discover everything that Nostr has to offer. Build new lists, stay organized, and browse collections.

worked. But at the same time I must ask: how exactly? And why aren't normal contact lists already good enough?

Because things are complicated i am afraid. The fact that i know someone to be a real person i shook hands with, does not mean i want to follow their content and vise versa. There is a lot of conflation in a 1 dimensional list of people.

Yes, I'm not saying it's the best, but it's something. And if you add a bunch of lists you get even more something.