Oddbean

No. You never addressed the question posed which was why would you choose a centralized approach in a decentralized environment? You had the choice. You centralized the tools. The tools are filters and snitches in part so we now have a censorship setup. Address the issue. Don't pontificate. Don't give an arrogant aside. Why this approach? You had the choice so just explain why distributed tools in a distributed environment was eschewed? That is the crux. The rest is fluff and misdirection. You are making this worse

Why is it that you think that content reports like this is a centralized approach? Is it perhaps because you've chosen an app which centralizes things that it feels centralized to you? This is a design decision from Amethyst that shows you all reports as posts and replies to your feed. You're choosing to pull this in. Nobody's pushing these notes to a big public relay, or in to your client. There are many bots out there, you're choosing to care about them. No other apps on Nostr show random people's reports. What about a bot which looks at content it finds in it's part of the nostr network and makes notes when it finds offensive language with content warnings is centralized? What about it is censorship? Do i need to send you a dictionary?

bro. dont play word games. this is dumb. you just are getting a little pathetic now. Iys like you have fingers in ears and are stomping lalalal I CANT HEAR YO lalalala its childish. There is nothing to gain. The more you talk the more you reveal yourself. I hope you code better than you human.

What centralized tool? I'm not trying to be arrogant here, I'm just almost totally ignorant about what you are talking about. There are three layers here. Protocol, Relay and Client. If someone wants to build something at the client level, there has to be something at the relay level that gives the code the hooks to grab. And that means there has to be something at the protocol layer that allows those hooks to exist. Just because one programmer wants to add those hooks and functionality to a client doesn't mean that others are required to do so, it's an open system. If you don't want to use functionality that someone else puts into the infrastructure layer, don't. It's that simple. But you can't stop code from developing and changing in ways that you might not like in an open system. If you do, then what you are doing is forking it and splitting the community into the silos and gates that we are all trying to break out of in the first place. I am NOT a coder. I'm using language and metaphors to the best of my ability to express my views on things that I honestly have a surface level understanding of at best. If I'm being a total nuube and not understanding your concern, then try again to explain it. Because I'm not seeing it.

Its not on the client. It is partly on the relay layer. He knows this so did not argue the point. Also free speech means people speak back. Crucible of ideas makes ideas better but bruises egos. We know who cares more about which by the reaction arc. This fella was dishonest, arrogant, dismissive and wrong.