Oddbean new post about login | logout The amount of censoring in #Nostr is unreal, the irony! Having a social experience with no censorship should be the dream and it suppose to be the ethos of Nostr Go woke, go broke, promise a censorship resistant protocol and instead to deliver that, become more of the same shit, go broke either way
Hmmm... Do you have an example of censoring? (other than ReplyGuy suppression)
Have you seen any violence or political incorrect post or even pornographic content in your posts or the feeds lately , specially in Primal? In the replays in the "influencers" feeds, which are honey pots for ads and pedaling ideas, propaganda or simply onlyfans soft porn? That content may be ugly and you may not want to see it, others welcome it, I block it and thus little by little curate what I watch, yet, it will show again since there will be those that try to profit from it and will automate the advertising of their narrative, ideology or product, that is unavoidable unless you ...wait for it... Censor content, which is where we are, at the point that I spent more time in X than here... The irony... A newb will not know that, the vast majority will use Primal or Damus and experience a fairly censored and curated content... If the path of #Nostr is to be X, so be it, but broken promises a failed ethos from the core is not a good start
Avoiding the large relays and the paid relays that censor and the new even worst trend pedaled by the master devs of censorship the WOT relays... is the way to go, and by doing so your experience will be slower but at least less censored, avoiding Primal and Damus is a must, so far Amethyst is decent, hopefully Victor will be more inclined to respect the ethos of #Nostr
Well we need to fight spam at the same time not be censoring, it's not an easy task.
That is the problem, you can't do spam fight without censoring, therefore, letting the users to do the censoring themselves on what they consume is the only logical path if you want to build under the ethos of censorship free... In Amethyst, you can block people and hastags, that should be enough for now, you won't see that content/user on your Amethyst front end. At least it is your choice, not the one of a relayer reading your messages and the ones of the people that replays to you (automated or not, irrelevant and a no-no implementation) to determine if it should be censor or not. Honestly, more of the same BS fiat social network crap but managed by a differences crowd... Yes awesome additional features related to Bitcoin, LN, ecash, etc, but if we are going this path, let's do X2.0 ... It looks like that is what we are trying to build, or with 0XChat a Telegram 2.0 (my favorite app but still, same core issue)