Post by @punkess • Hey
can we get this channel/club/community/… thing solved for lens?
eg workout/fitness/gym is an amazing use case for social (like cooking, …). @club/fitness
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- agreed. would be great if we can solve this.
as @lens/paulburke mentioned, lens has publication tags that are used for channels/clubs. @lens/buttrfly uses those tags to also aggregate content from other apps in channels. so the fitness channel on buttrfly also includes all posts from the fitness club on orb for example.
the simplest way to open this up across all apps is to have a central directly that lists the channels/communities/clubs and their tags, initially focusing on open channels than dont need any membership criteria (like fitness, cooking, music, etc..), so apps can read and write to those channels. and the most obvious place to have this is the lens api. we dont need to complicate things or have anything onchain.
- Orb doesn’t seem to be interested in opening their approach. Lens has always supported tags on posts but no apps use them. All we really need is to start using tags for topics.
Orb’s clubs don’t actually do anything interesting, it’s basically just like clicking on a hashtag. There’s no technical reason they should be doing it in a closed manner. But they’re the main reason we see no movement on this front. They promised to open their club standard months ago.
- Agreed. Needs to improve.
- I prefer the term "topics" to "clubs" - easier to post into for the creator, and easier to consume content off of without being part of a 'club'.
Way less resistance for the content to flow and moderate, I hope more Lens apps would include muting topics/words which users don't want to see.
This also paves way for paywalled community/club, where only the serious could join for a fee where the value proposition of joining the club is well defined and content is strictly curated.
- Until now I don't understand why there are no token gated communities... or token gated collectibles... or token gated discounts... and of course, that work in any app as a native feature of the lens... anyway... 😆
- 100 $EREMITA
- It would be cool for all Lens app to support the same group formats. Right now as Orb having their group private, is kind of “forcing” the user to post from Orb to get that extra reach you get from clubs.
Also, sub-communities would be cool for sure, but I see them far away. Probably they make sense to existe in a dedicated app for them, like Reddit.
- Yo, this is such an interesting convo! I feel like having sub communities within a big fitness community could be super helpful. Like, maybe a separate app for workouts could really focus on that aspect and make it more personalized. What do you think? Would you be down for a dedicated workout app? 💪