Stuart Bowman on Nostr: Good points, from a fundamental perspective even an algo that was successfully ...

Good points, from a fundamental perspective even an algo that was successfully designed to be decentralized and ungamable is going to have to derive its metric of what constitutes "interesting" from the way humans use the app and the things they post about, so it's function will at least indirectly reflect the interests of existing users. If oddbean is pushing down btc content it's genuinely debatable if that is a good or bad strategy — but in any case it's an editorial decision that fails the decentralization requirement (not saying that's necessarily bad in the short term). In the long term there's this question of how to remove a reliance on editors. Paradoxically the solution might actually be leaning into editorial maximalism, in effect having lot's of competing moderators, i.e. communities. But then there's still the question of making sure that new/alt communities are visible so you don't end up like Reddit with a set of defacto "default" subs