Coming from Reddit/Lemmy, Here is my feedback

[MrLuxuri]

Hey guys! I am coming from Reddit, I've been a long-time Redditor for years and recently in the wake of API changes, I've been looking at Reddit alternatives (though I've looking been in support of free, open source software - FOSS), have spent most of my time on Lemmy, another open source, user-funded, decentralized platform built on top of ActivityPub, similar to Mastodon, but I've always been intrigued by Nostr, and being able to much more easily host my own relay compared to an actual server, and the fact that I don't have to choose a server when joining like I have to on Mastodon or Lemmy.

I wish I found out zapddit earlier, I didn't actually know there was an aggregation and discussion platform like Reddit for Nostr, this seems like the only one I am glad to have found it, because every other client seems way too focused on being a Twitter alternative.

That's my mini introduction, but let's get into the feedback:

1. Community and Moderation: This is a big aspect I see missing on Zapddit, it's a great idea to categorize topics based on hashtags, but it would be great if we can allow moderators to claim hashtags, and then upload a profile picture/banner for that hashtag. I know we can't bring the exact parity of how reddit exactly works here, nostr is unique and I really like it so far, but moderators are a huge core part of reddit. Moderators are responsible for ensuring that the content posted in their subreddit is relevant, appropriate, and adheres to the subreddit's rules and guidelines (speaking of rules, it would be great if moderators can display rules, and moderate content to a certain level). Why? Moderation like reddit helps keep the content clean and overall improves the experience for other users in the community, it also makes reddit very self-sustaining because the reddit developers don't have to take all the moderation in their own hands (that will be a headache for so many communities), it will also give more identity to every community. There is also a HUGE mod community on reddit, if that aspect is not on zapddit, it won't be considered as a real alternative among the reddit community and the favour will go towards other alternatives like Lemmy.

2. Profiles: When I click a profile, every single time it annoyingly takes me to another app called snort, but I am here for the forum/aggreation and discussion experience, I don't want to be throwed into something else that again looks like microblogging which I am totally not into. It would be great if profile and extra can happen inside zapddit.

3. Connect with the developers: In every other open source project the dev team are also on Matrix, would be great if y'all can do the same, it's much better to discuss and give feedback to devs in a chatroom directly.

4. Landing Page: Just like Lemmy, Mastodon, reddit and etc, can we have a landing or homepage first? Because with a homepage, we can link our github, matrix and wiki (especially wiki, I would love to contribute and make the onboarding process much easier for zapddit, for example how creating an account works and etc) and of course, get into zapddit.

Really love what you folks have done here so far, keep it up and let me know what you think about the feedback.