I understand this feeling. I don't know exactly why roya left but I have had my "fuck nostr" moments too.

last year I quit on International Women's Day because the amount of misogynistic and -insert prefix here-phobic content and memes that were floating around. It was on my own feed. it was in global feed. it was pervasive and everywhere.

I don't expect to be treated special on IWD. It is nice when it happens. When I was working overseas, the men on our development teams celebrated their women counterparts by paying their way during lunch and saying "Happy Women's Day" A simple, heartfelt sentiment. Had they not celebrated us, it would have been just another day at the office and been perfectly fine. 

But no, on nostr, it would have been the equivalent of coming to work and having the men spit on us and make us feel less-than all day. Men that we worked alongside every other day of the year show their derision on just that one day.

I had people in my feed who I had interacted with churn out hate memes against women on just that day. It felt disgusting so I quit. what's the point of staying when most of my time spent here was gonna be hitting the block button?

Months later, I came back. I like the immaturity of nostr as a social space where the connections feel more authentic. Blocking is a powerful tool and I use it liberally. the social landscape change a little for the better while I was gone.

here's to hoping it continues to get better so the people who left will come back.

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 I think the improvements including web of trust in various ways should keep out the things so you don't need to block as much. I don't think we can expect people to become better, but the tools may help keep out the noise. We're getting there. 

 Sorry that happened to you. 🫂 

 When people(men?) show their true colors, you mute them? 

I do think nostr needs the ability to limit how others can interact with one’s own posts. If I want to turn off commenting, reactions, or limit such things to a list of npubs I approve of, that should be possible. 

Such things would prevent this experience in my opinion.