What problem does this solve?
Most nostr clients discover new content by following people. This does not suit a large set of people who want to discover new content by following 'topics' instead. This leaves a big hole for people who are reddit-style content consumers.
reddit vs. zapddit
| zapddit | |
|---|---|
| Users search for sub-reddits like r/nostr, r/tifu, etc. and follow them. | Users search for hashtags like #coffeechain, #foodstr, etc. and follow them. |
| Home feed is filled with posts from their subscribed sub-reddits. | User's feed is filled with recent notes mentioning the followed hashtags, in the reverse-chronological order. |
| Users express appreciation through upvotes. | Users express appreciation through Upzaps. Sats in the Upzaps are sent to the author of the upzapped note. |
| Users express disagreement through downvotes | Users express disagreement through Downzaps. Sats in the Downzaps are sent to the Downzap recipient, who is a nostr user chosen by the down-zapper |
| Users see a tally of upvotes vs downvotes for each post | Users see a tally of upzap sats and downzap sats for each note |
Features Checklist
- NIP-07 login
- Search hashtag
- Follow, Unfollow hashtag
- Feed with notes
- Clickable hashtag link from post content
- Image display in note
- Set a downzap recipient
- Upzaps and Downzaps using QR Code
- Open user profile/post in snort
- Show user mentions in notes
- Switch light mode/dark mode
- Mute specific hashtags
- Load images only for notes by 'followed' users
Future features
- Configure multiple downzap recipients- Exact recipient randomly chosen during the downzap
- Relay list
- Replies(??)
- RTL hashtags support
- Configurable topic sets