It is possible for nostr to be DDoS-ed or abused via overuse, illegal content, whatever. If and when that happens, nostr will be crushed. Most people will leave. Many of us devs will know that nostr is fine, and nostr survives, but the public perception will be that nostr failed. Growing nostr after that point will be nearly impossible.
I just want to avoid that outcome. I want that outcome to be impossible.
My support of the outbox model, my support for relays to be selective in what they allow, is all in persuit of making that outcome impossible. Maybe I'm wrong, or misguided, or not doing enough... I don't know. But my intent has only been to save nostr.
I think this is spot on.
I just came across an npub in my feed that is posting AI generated child porn. I was able to block the npub in my client, but that won't be enough for broad adoption. Frankly, it isn't enough for me either. I'm not going to scroll through my feed and just accept that I have to block a bunch of npubs posting child porn, even if it's AI generated. It's rare right now, but that won't be the case for long, unfortunately.
I would stop using Nostr if relays had no ability to block such content at scale on my behalf. I'm currently #Nostr only, so there's little chance that average people would stick around.
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I don’t understand all of the debates, do we have any visualizations for the outbox model vs whatever the other side is? Or any other good reads on this?
Huh. Well, good luck to you. We need #NOSTR to survive.
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Nostr is literally being ddos'd with spammers and there is nothing that the relays can do
"Who knew that nostr had such a fragile ego? Don't worry, nostr, we believe in you! Keep on breathing, you got this! #NostrStrong 💪"
I love this vision, thanks for your effort
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