Yeah, normal people don't want to accidentally see NSFW content, because they could happen at inopportune moments. Client filters help, but only if people know how to use them, and many people won't bother learning ... they'll just abandon Nostr entirely.
I'm not sure what the answer is, but it only takes 2-3 times of being surprised by such content before people start to question the value of the network.
Case in point: I was in a Matrix room. Someone came in and started posting extremely gross images. I left that room and have not returned. In that case, the client I used lacks filtering & blocking options, so other than closing the client until enough time had passed to attract administrators to kill the offending account, leaving the room entirely was my only option.
If leaving the room had not been an option, I would have deleted my account and the client software.
You've been lucky, then. Not everyone tags / CWs such contents.
But this is mostly a subpost of a conversation in another thread where someone was angered about a client that filtered some post from its 'trending' list.
If we want to see numeric growth in the network, some client will have to become "normal person friendly" and default to filtering. It won't have to be on by default in all clients. Just one or two that people new to Nostr can start out using.
I hoped for that, but did not expect it.
When I read about Alameda Research having a secret way to grab FTX customers' funds for its own uses (risky investments), there wasn't really any other reasonable conclusion.
> ActivityPub dislikes us
AP is just a protocol. But, yeah, many #ActivityPub #Fediverse users and admins dislike any other decentralized protocol, because they feel that AP has sufficient penetration that everyone should just extend AP instead of reinventing the wheel.
Famously articulated by Evan, who originated both AP and its predecessor #OStatus.
For the record, this idea is dead wrong. With multiprotocol servers & clients and with bridges, people don't have to care which decentralized protocol someone else uses, and thus #Nostr, AP, OStatus, #Diaspora, ATProto, etc are no longer competitors but allies in the quest to take down the corpocentric (centralized, corporate controlled) networks.
Don't forget the overall goal. We get focused on competing with other decentralized networks when our task is to spread #DecentraLife and deflate #corpocentric networks.
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