In legacy social media, users are algorithmically inventivized to follow and prop up influencers, and everyone is in a rage baiting rat race to get more engagement for potential revenue from social media overlords like Elon. The result is slop, predictably.
I think things are arranged differently here on nostr where people naturally gravitate toward a group of like minded people. I mean this happens on legacy SM, but the algorithm isn't geared toward that type of community building. I have a feeling that "influencers" don't really thrive here, and we should be building around that and cultivating an toxic environment that rejects legacy influencer behavior.
Growth on nostr should be about which tribes you're affiliated with, and your reputation with them, rather than how many mindless followers you've got.
quoting note1g4v…a0ywComing 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.