Anyone else worried that Meta is going to take over everything?
Most people want an easy-to-use site where they can expect reasonable content moderation by default (perhaps with an opt-out). And Nostr, for all its truly important innovations in privacy and decentralization and freedom of speech, is *not* easy to use and does *not* give people reasonable content moderation by default.
I know fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6) had a plan for allowing relays to set their own content moderation standards. However, as currently implemented, this gives users very little agency. Most comparison sites don't give you an easy way to see relay content policies; I've seen little evidence that content is *ever* moderated; and most clients encourage users to connect to 8-9 relays anyway, so your feed is still likely to get flooded with unmoderated sludge.
For example, suppose relay 1 is cool with criticism of religion, but relay 2 isn't. Where am I supposed to see that, as a user? There are no community guidelines available to read.
Nostr is already a little more hardcore thanks to the public and private keys. Now, I think public-key cryptography is the future of authentication whether we like it or not. So I'm cool with Nostr taking a stand on it. However, we have to keep track of how many barriers normies face signing up.
We need to get the normies on board if we want to beat Threads.
ProvocaTeach /
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2023-07-11 21:09:58
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2023-07-11 21:09:58Event JSON
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