Chris Liss on Nostr: yeah, they should have the freedom, just acknowledging that it too is subject to ...
yeah, they should have the freedom, just acknowledging that it too is subject to capture and eventually failure, though competition from uncaptured curators and reputational damage could mitigate it.
And yes the idea would be to have people who follow everyone who posts more than say x times per week so that the number is about 10K. And call the account Master Curator or something. It would be real work though, so you’d have to get funding to vet and pay a bunch of people and maybe cut them in on the zaps to the account. But it would (IMO) accelerate engagement/adoption on nostr via incentives. ANY npub with sufficient volume would qualify to be followed (unless dismissed for spam/low-quality content), and be in the running to be re-posted by the Curator.
Even better if the UI for the curator were built so that it hid the identities of the npubs, so there would be no advantage whatsoever to having more followers or a high profile. The Curator just looks at posts preselected from accounts who contribute content to the platform at a certain rate and boosts the ones it deems worthwhile.
And yes the idea would be to have people who follow everyone who posts more than say x times per week so that the number is about 10K. And call the account Master Curator or something. It would be real work though, so you’d have to get funding to vet and pay a bunch of people and maybe cut them in on the zaps to the account. But it would (IMO) accelerate engagement/adoption on nostr via incentives. ANY npub with sufficient volume would qualify to be followed (unless dismissed for spam/low-quality content), and be in the running to be re-posted by the Curator.
Even better if the UI for the curator were built so that it hid the identities of the npubs, so there would be no advantage whatsoever to having more followers or a high profile. The Curator just looks at posts preselected from accounts who contribute content to the platform at a certain rate and boosts the ones it deems worthwhile.