clients need to have a way to funnel people into a safe space by electing to during their setup to utilize a WoT based on a suggested follow list, or a collective filter ( this person has been flagged for shitty thing 5 times so is filtered out of safe mode), then users can peel away the protection ( and ofcourse go wild west from the get go). thats, Moro's thoughts... 

 Yes, that's what his project is about. 

 It's like with Google image search. The crawlers go over the whole Internet, suppress obvious kiddie porn and other horrendous stuff, and then add safe-search options for people who want to search for "Europe through the back door" and get Rick Steve's travel guide as the first result. 

 Creepiest thing I've read all day.

Ma'am, its not actually 2001 any more, and Google does waaay more than that for you. Ask anyone in SEO. Many tentacles on the scale, some political some financial. 

 Google does more, but we can do the same basic thing. That image search is popular because it delivers a valuable service and does it well enough that people keep coming back.
We can deliver the same service, without all the backround-voodoo stuff. Which would make our service more valuable.

Nobody wants an unfiltered image search. They don't. Even if they think they do.
Nobody wants an unfiltered feed. They don't. Even if they think they do.
They have no idea what all is out there. Manmade horrors beyond comprehension. 

 Truth. 

Still a very creepy analogy to see while writing code for a filter! 

 Always learn from the market leader and then build something even better. If you recoil in horror at their products, you can't do effective market research.

Google image search is world-class and that's why I use it, even though it sorta creeps me out. It is, what it is. 

 Its the prospect of my FOSS contribution building another such that is creepy. Otherwise, yes, quite. 

 Maff is gross. 😅  

 NGL, I would have bounced out of boredom, for sure.

A list of community options during installation is a good idea though. Various filters, and maybe various categories of relay as the ecosystem matures. 

 I distictly did not have that problem but I may have simply been fortunate there. 

I also had the patience to curate away the garbage that I'm so used to seeing in "regular social media."

Either way, I see the problem that needs to be solved for sure.  

 A lot depends upon the client and relays that you start off with. 

 That makes sense. Amethyst and the defaults back from when I signed on. Don't really know what they were.  

 Amethyst has group-mutes, now, and they've changed up the relays.

I started out surfing global on lol, with no group mutes.
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