Yeah, it could work at the relay level, though that wasn't what I had in mind, and it has flaws.
Mainly, since relays are your gateway to the content, nothing makes them be transparent about precisely what they are filtering and why. That feels a little too much like a nanny. People should feel like they are being helped to do what they would do with blocking themselves, but don't want to bother.
So, I was thinking more like would be censors would simply provide something like an RSS feed that provides all the PKs they block, their reasons, and the PK of an admin who can be appealed to.
Then nostr clients can combine all the subscribed feeds into a single big blacklist locally for that user, and allow users to override bans they disagree with an explicit follow.
Done right, I would hope that this would evolve to most of the censoring feeds having lanes they stay in.
>From: (manfromhighcastle) at 08/14/22 09:26:59 on wss://relay.damus.io
>---------------
>Yes reminds me of Stephenson in I think The Fall, where people subscribe to their own reality feeds, and choose their own censors and what they voluntarily not want to see. We could have "normie" heavily censored mainstream relays, then lightly touched "yellow" relays and finally the full feed of the sewer on the "red" relays
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2022-08-14 23:01:19
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