I've developed a few very primitive nostr analysis tools in the past to find or filter keywords, maybe I'll do that again and see where the interesting users are.
Maybe there's a client that can remove every post that has the words "zap" or "bitcoin" which is probably around 90% of posts.
I'd probably also like to filter all image/video media, because it's never anything interesting. Just reposted midwit-tier memes.
Not if you don't use it, it's a network effect thing. You don't have to use any of that tho, I don't think ditto does. All the twiggers literally joined mastotroon because it's super easy to censor ppl so what does fedi accomplish really?
The nostr community got a little retarded and started bloating up their specs, but the first one are very well-written and easy for a single developer to implement.
The point is that you don't have to use any of the retard ones, the basic social network part still works fine. I haven't used ditto because idk about Alex tbh, he started being very weird towards me and the PPN connections and all.
Tranny jannies can't block you from talking to ppl, you just need to share one relay and there are a lot of free speech ones. There's also relays that copy posts from other relays so it's not really an issue at all.
Don't think that even happened but if it did it was probably because of feds posting cp. The only "censorship" I saw was that iris guy removing steve jails "verification" on iris because he threatened to rape someone. Oh and there's also group censorship on amethyst but it's not default now I don't think because he got btfod.
@vic@mitchconner@Quentel@bot I made this exact point about how no stir has no social incentives and rely's on payment. Seems i was spot on.... :nixon_smug:
@dcc@mitchconner@Quentel@bot I tried early on to get them to take a more federated mindset, but they were having none of it.
So here they are, with endless spam, chaos, missing messages and reacts, lost followers, etc.
But for what it is, even if not the best premise, it's still easy enough for one developer to implement, and there's a lot to be said about that.
If someone wants to get started with ActivityPub, they first have to learn "JSON-LD" which is a really horrible thing in itself, and it only gets worse from there.
@dcc@mitchconner@Quentel@bot I'm trying to make a new nostr npub and use a browser extension, and it's just layer after layer of "connect this thing to that, install this app, make an account there, link everything together"
- Generate a keypair - Install a browser extension - Load keypair into extension - Visit frontend that uses the extension, which signs events on the frontend's behalf
Point to some of the influential devs working on the project that are advocating for protecting the right to openly say 'hateful' things. Tell me how it works if it doesn't include censorship.
Censorship is the reason why many found their way to the fediverse.
Did you link the wrong post? That's not an explanation, bot.
Trading in the ability to run an instance on a server for a crypto keypair when they're openly discussing censorship approaches is a terrible idea. They can absolutely block you on a much larger scale.
Ok retard, there isn't just one server, there are as many servers as you'd like. There are a lot of servers, and you can use as many as you'd like to post your retard posts so all of the other retards can read them.
If you understand it, then explaining it should be no issue. Perhaps there is something I'm missing, but you're expectations have nothing to do with your inability to explain your point.
Simply saying 'you can't get it' isn't an way out.
Correct, because there isn't one troon that controls all relays. If you don't like that then run your own retard relay so you can talk to all of the other retards.
@Quentel@dcc@mitchconner@bot It'll be Fediblock but for individuals instead of instances. So once you're on the list, any relay that uses that list won't interact with you. In that sense it's the same.
But on the other hand, there are some relays that won't use that list, and the kind of people who like the list won't connect to relays that don't use the list, because they'll "be exposed to dangerous hate speech" or whatever. In that sense, it ends up being an individual's decision whether to "federate with" Scarlet Letter users by connecting (or not) to relays that don't use the list.
So it's an individual's choice.
BUT HERE'S THE CATCH!
Nearly every frontend pushes a list of "suggested" relays, and you can be certain that only relays using the list will be "suggested." So new individuals effectively don't get the choice, because they never even see the forbidden relays unless they find it through some other means (the same way Dark Fedi is found by people).
@bot@mitchconner@Quentel@vic No stir: I can't talk to anyone unless i go put very specific "servers" into each and every client Fedi: I can talk to anyone from the get go.
@dcc@mitchconner@Quentel@bot True, your instance owner does it for you. Sometimes that's a good thing (like how Kroner blocks the cartoon pedos on Baest) and sometimes it's frustrating (like how Kroner blocks DRC, though honestly that may be more good than not).
The Nostr approach is going to be a gigantic circlejerk of people reporting to some list, like one big fedi instance, and it remains to be seen whether they will converge on one list or all sperg out at each other and make different versions or "streams" of lists.
Wrong, the DRCPN and BPN aren't blocked on seal cafe, they're followers only so you can see as much pedophile retard content as you'd like actually. That's also not how nostr works but you clearly don't even get this so idk.
It's still an individual choice, you can choose to see whatever you'd like and join whatever relay you'd like, and nobody can dictate what you see. It's honestly super gay that you don't see how that's better than fedi, I didn't think you were this dumb.
There will be a centralized list that everyone reports "bad keys" to, and every "approved/suggested" relay will adhere to blocking events from keys on that list in realtime.
@bot@Quentel@dcc@mitchconner When someone you regard as smart says something that seems dumb, perhaps you ought to stop and consider whether YOU are the one who doesn't understand.
Especially in tech things, which you generally suck at.
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@Quentel@dcc@mitchconner@munir@bot Well, the first gate to pass is NIP-05 verification, which is tied to a domain name, which a real person owns. If a domain name starts getting a reputation for "verifying" "hateful" keys, that domain will get added to a list as well. That scenario is almost exactly like fediblock.
They'll probably let that go on for awhile... at least until they're able to figure out a solution. It'll be like starting over again every few hours once a person makes waves though.
@vic@dcc@mitchconner@Quentel@bot I see, thanks for the proper explanation, so from what I understand, the client "user" sends a "message" to one or more "relays" and they somehow made social media out of this. Idk man seems like a downgrade to me, but I see why it could be useful.
@munir@dcc@mitchconner@Quentel@bot Nostr is more individual-focused than "instance"-focused, but that ironically results in more centralization of things like pubkey blacklists.
One point I've put across is that there's really no point in connecting to one relay versus another except for censorship purposes. A relay doesn't have any "personality" or "group" associated with it, because individuals just spam their messages out to many relays instead of having a home relay.
@munir@dcc@mitchconner@Quentel@bot Sure. They are "supposed" to be dumb and just forward things, but the nostr community is moving more and more toward policing content at the relay level, in an ironic backpedaling from its original rhetoric.
@munir@dcc@mitchconner@Quentel@bot The point is that YOU own your account, not whatever instance you happen to be on, like how fedi works.
So in theory, this means 1) you can't be banned (and your posts erased), and 2) you don't have an admin gatekeeping what you get to see.
You create a key, pick a bunch of relays to sync with (and spam out your messages to), and others who are connected to any of those relays see your messages, and vice versa. Very spammy protocol by design, but the duplication is intentional.
Unfortunately, the other stuff in this thread goes over how the de-emphasis on relays leads to a very strong potential for centralized gatekeeping by frontend developers and whoever decides to be in charge of the blacklist they're all dreaming up.