> Moderators should only step in when there is something that violates the law in the jurisdiction where the relay is based.
Personally I don't have an issue with moderators also blocking:
- Content which is illegal in another jurisdiction when the IP querying it is from that jurisdiction (this is to prevent the whole relay from being blocked and legal liabilities has any ability to still take some actions against the admin).
- Straight up spam (not trivial to define, but easy to recognize, and some attempts have been made to define it). It's not much less clear than the law, actually.
- Untagged content of certain kinds. This might also be useful to avoid some liability.
- Content that abuses the relay by using it for purposes other than social networking. You shouldn't upload a huge amount of data to a relay and use it as a backend for free because it's not the purpose of the relay and it can't support it.
Also, not all relays need to support all kinds of event (besides kind 1) or everything besides NIP-01.
Ultimately, different relays will block different things, depending on their needs.
This is ok.
As long as we promote a culture of freedom of speech, practically anything will be hosted by some relay and we have censorship resistance. Promoting this culture shouldn't be done by shunning anyone, really, but simply by having the notion that censorship resistance is the goal of Nostr and that users should act as to remain able to talk to each other.
> Big relays are only a problem insofar as big relays get all the new users, and as smaller relays die off it centralizes power and authority, which runs counter to what nostr stands for. Even if it's unintended.
But that's not necessarily a problem if there are many big relays and people use all of them.
It's not like Mastodon where each person chooses one server.
Here, two people need to be on the same relay to communicate (roughly), but one person can use multiple relays (and indeed they should).
As for paying.
Personally, I have no issue spending money if the purpose of the payment is that other people, who maybe can't pay, won't have to.
This is why I wouldn't want to "pay", but rather to donate to organizations that have freedom of speech as a goal.
Ultimately, if Nostr becomes mainstream running a big relay, and I really think the best scenario is one with many big relays which almost everyone uses, will be expensive. Which is why we'll need organizations.