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Mike Masnick

Okay, checking in again on nostr after some time away. Trying Primal, which seems to have improved a lot since I last tested it... What else should I be looking at?

2023-07-07 04:55:21

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The average user doesn't care and will never care. That's why decentralized providers still need to offer something else of value that's better. Still worth highlighting decentralized systems and explaining their importance, but over time that will only appeal to a segment of the population.

2023-07-06 17:10:05

The future of microblogging social media: everyone posting on their preferred platform to complain about some other new entrant into the microblogging social media market that people are buzzing about and which people who are comfortable with their existing choice don't want to bother with.

2023-06-25 01:09:37

"But why would you ever need content moderation?" people yell at me, as their screams disappear into the morass of spam that fills up my nostr mentions...

2023-06-25 01:04:47

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Last night was using coracle. Today I'm using snort.

2023-06-24 20:15:09

Posted some stuff to nostr last night that appears to have never actually made it. Wondering how common that is?

2023-06-22 17:58:50

One less fun thing about nostr is that I seem to need to use 3 or 4 clients at a time, as each one seems to display different things, or have a different feature break each time I try to use it. It's nice that there ARE so many options, but would be nicer if I could just use one or two and stick with them rather than having to constantly have all of them open.

2023-06-19 21:52:10

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That's a potential solution to spam (though probably not a very effective one). But it's not a solution to targeted abuse about someone. Not all of the problems in an unmoderated space are about when you are name checked by an abusive user.
Nor does your solution deal with things such as child sexual abuse material, which is illegal.

2023-06-17 04:33:44

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I don't know the specifics there, but I doubt the issue is wanting "some 3rd party to censor them." Rather they want to use the platform in a manner that does not result in them being harassed/spammed. Moderation is very rarely about "censorship," and often about community building/community norms.

2023-06-16 05:44:09

So is anyone building a nostr-powered Reddit-like thing?

2023-06-16 05:26:35

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But is there even a way to display that info?

2023-06-15 23:08:31

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Perhaps I just haven't used nostr enough, but the part I've been trying to wrap my head around regarding relay moderation is... that I haven't seen any simple system that explains what each relay's moderation philosophy is. It feels like as you sign up for relays that should be made clear, but none of the clients I've played around with seem to present relays in such a manner.
It seems like the moderation details, if they're all going to be relay-based, should be front and center.
Separately, perhaps I don't understand the tech enough, but relay-based moderation seems like it would only solve for some classes of moderation issues, not all.
I think your idea of having the moderation be a separate service, enabling relays/clients to opt-in makes more sense... but it does leave open the question of who sets up such moderation services, who staffs them, and why...

2023-06-11 23:39:14

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I've mostly been using Iris.to, which is nice. But now I'm testing Coracle.social...

2023-06-11 23:04:09

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Heh. I've been staring at primal trying to figure out where the hell you enter you key to login and it's beyond me. At least for me, it doesn't exist.

2023-06-11 20:10:26

In playing around with nostr again, I just came across Alby. It *looks* super slick, but I have no idea if it's legit. I could dig in and try to figure out... or I could just ask here and see if anyone has any opinions.

2023-06-10 00:04:55

Who else should I follow on nostr if I don't just want to talk about nostr?

2023-06-06 04:52:10

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I pointed that out to someone else earlier today and they insisted that there is no such thing and all VR must be bad. It is interesting how our views of new technologies are often anchored in the original failings.

2023-06-05 01:10:48

Ok. Going to try to experiment more with nostr again (don't hold me to this. I sometimes say this and fail to follow through)...

2023-06-05 01:08:35

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I remember watching a YouTube video of a family in NZ taking a long drive to visit their first ever Costco, and it was infectious how ridiculously happy it made them.

2023-04-24 02:43:45

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Thanks for posting this (and thanks to the guy who alerted me to it...). I think this is an important discussion, but as some have noted in the replies, it's a somewhat different challenge in a decentralized system like nostr.
The moderation aspect can be somewhat more decentralized and/or distributed as well. Indeed, you can create multiple answers to the question and see what works best.
But, still, if you don't take out the garbage, you'll get branded as a garbage dump. So the reputation of any social media, protocol or platform, requires at least some thoughtful responses to these questions.

2023-02-01 23:55:15

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Cool. Testing them now...

2023-02-01 23:38:55

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Yes, but which ones? I've been using nostr.rocks which is okay, but am curious if there are other better ones.

2023-02-01 23:35:39

I know everyone's focused on Damus, but for those of us without iOS devices, what are the best Nostr clients?

2023-02-01 19:05:39

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How you know that a technology is getting successful: the patent trolls show up.

2023-01-03 02:07:21

What's the best web client for nostr right now?

2023-01-02 02:17:27

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next stop android please.

2023-01-02 02:13:21

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The ability to meet/talk to people from anywhere about anything... is powerful. And by powerful I don't mean "good." It has good sides and bad sides to it. Understanding those is important. But, yes, I think a protocol approach does *help* with many of these challenges...

2023-01-02 02:12:04

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But the risk there, and the reason I have the "but also no" in my original response is that there does remain value in at least exposing people to other viewpoints and ideas, and not locking people JUST into smaller, more narrowly focused communities.

2023-01-02 02:11:07

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and the end result of that would be more free speech, not because of a giant general speech platform, but because you'd have countless places where you might be able to speak out or find other speech you wanted. Or, create your own space if none of the others worked for you.

2023-01-02 02:10:14

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Yes and no. On the yes side: I've long argue that the entire point of things like Section 230 were not to have one giant platform for all speech, but rather the ability of any website to create, cultivate, and curate the community they wanted...

2023-01-01 04:03:15

Happy new year nostr-folks.

2022-12-21 19:59:10

Mentioned nostr (briefly) today here, but planning to write some more about it soon. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/21/why-would-anyone-use-another-centralized-social-media-service-after-this/

2022-12-18 19:14:10

Absolutely hilarious that Musk has now banned the sharing of Nostr accounts. We're such a big threat to Twitter here?

2022-12-18 00:31:00

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tried it... liked the others better. but, you know, it's early.

2022-12-18 00:26:35

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The Damus web interface is very clean... but buggy.

2022-12-17 08:46:57

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just saw this... bouncing between nostr.rocks and damus web

2022-12-17 04:57:56