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🚨 Today I'm launching Ontolo. 🚀 Ontolo is a super simple micro-app that will hopefully entice everyone spend a bit of time labeling other Nostr events. NIP-32, if you're not familiar, allows anyone to label/review/comment on any nostr post. It's an insanely powerful concept (thanks @npub1jlrs...ynqn, who wrote the NIP), but it's still pretty underused in clients. Why would you want to have labeled events? 1. Discovery: Labeled events can be used directly by social clients–like @Damus or @npub12vkc...pugg when trying to suggest content that users might like. 2. Training data: We're at the gates of the era of AI. Classification algorithms and machine learning have been pretty good to classifying content but with a training dataset they can become WAAAAAY better. Hopefully, labels in Nostr will become a public good that all clients can lean on to create their own AI models for discovery, onboarding, and a hundred other things I've not thought of. This is an experiment, like all of them, so please hit me with your feedback. Expect more fun social features soon. 🫂 LFG! Thanks to everyone who helped me think through this over the last few days, from Tokyo until now. 🫂 @tanel @npub1jlrs...ynqn @npub1l2vy...ajft @bob @npub1arkn...h43w https://www.ontolo.social

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Just gave it a try. Well done! Do you plan on any method for users to propose additional concepts and categories? From spinning through 20 or so notes, I skipped a few which were Bitcoin-related and some that were culture.
I love the idea of having an ontology for everything but as you already said, AI probably is very efficient at it already so the manual work on posts without context is tedious for probably little gain. I also have to skip most notes as none of the categories matches. "If the stars align, nostr is going to get a nice map app 🤩" is technology -> nostr but is that a meaningful ontology? How about "motivational"? How about "community"? I think, many categories overlap and for different people different dimensions are relevant. I think I would experiment with LLMs and ask an LLM API for the top 5 labels it can come up with for any such post and then ask the user to pick from those or pick another label. Also please allow the first coarse categorization as labels. If I clicked on Food & Drink cause it's the right category but I don't want to dive deeper, the worst user experience is to have to click back to click skip. How about letting me assign it or skip from the submenu, too?
As you want an ontolgoy of the note itself, maybe the author should not be shown to not influence the choice? That said, I wish there was a way to interact with the notes discovered this way. Please add a link to social clients. Something like njump but remember my choice. So add a link "join conversation" that opens a modal showing options like njump and a checkbox to remember choice. Next time, open the conversation directly in the preferred client. Also, if you let me brows my timeline like this, I might be more inclined to label than if there is no way of jumping into the conversations.
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Great build, Jeff. Very snappy website, feels great to use. Expansion on the categories may be super necessary, as there is no "politics" label, "Animals, pets, cute things" type category maybe too. A few phone/os/ type posts popped up that didn't really fit in with Science and tech > internet tech. Maybe more like a "hardware/software" option in there too. I'm not sure how expansive you wish for this to be though.
What a neat concept, reminds me of spending hours doing Galaxy Zoo back in the day. One request if I may - an "expand all" button for the categories/subcategories would be useful to save a click each time and to show users what the subcategories are without having to look inside each of the top-level categories first. Also, we need a "gm/gn" category 🤣