JBN on Nostr: Seems like popularity contest gatekeeping to me, where the rich get richer and early ...

Seems like popularity contest gatekeeping to me, where the rich get richer and early adopters get overly prioritized. I suppose it could maybe be paired with a provably random generator for display order, drawing seed from a livestream of animals at the public zoo, but that has questions of definition(who is 'music') quickly becomes complex enough to make me skeptical of tradeoffs with engineering hubris. (Not to mention remote control cheetahs). I lean heavily toward principle of not chasing legacy ideals, such as 'more is always better' and 'we must sustain growth obligations'.