Btw the Mostr Bridge has been updated to block porn content on the relay, to the extent that it's possible.
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then how did this make it through?
This should be left to the user, just with a warning that its basically adding a second firehose from the #fediverse. If people can just block whole fedi instances ( as part of mostr IDs) then that also serves the purpose, allowing people to curate their own experience - adhering to a core virtue of nostr. The #Mostr bridge is a real strong tool for onboarding plenty of people from the fediverse, #bsky and #twitter especially in the #art spheres. The fact that there is a #filter silencing a large chunk of those bridged accounts discourages adoption, and the fact that this is an untagged, short note from weeks back rather than in the main mostr website's FAQ is just frustrating icing on the cake. In #Amethyst there is no real return on the user end to tell if posts not showing is a config issue or something else, just opaque error codes.
Adult #creators are one of the primary targets of censorship, not just from takedowns by being "high risk" to financial institutions (due to Operation Chokepoint and other nasty imposed liabilities from on high) but in suppression via shadowbanning and algorithmic shenanigans that quietly, severely limit discoverability and reach.
In particular, #artists are semi-regularly finding ourselves "homeless" as the history of art-community sites is incredibly unstable, and most social media sites have trended towards turning hostile past a certain point in their growth. Hell the head security admin of mastodon/.art called nostr "fascist shit" when she defederated it from mostr, citing its censorship-resistance as the reason!
IMO the mostr bridge is too important in the grand scheme of onboarding and disrupting the stranglehold centralized socmed has over the creator landscape. Even plenty of artists who don't make that kind of content themselves still have colleagues who do and may wish to keep their communities going across protocol lines. Back when #tumblr banned it, clean artists also jumped ship over that imposition, so it isn't a stretch to say that a filter like this will cause problems of adoption. Plenty of very skilled tech people are also HEAVILY involved in adult art communities as patrons and fans, so this also risks deterring talent who could make strong code contributions to various parts of nostr.
And since mostr is unfortunately a "centralized link" due to technical reasons, I fear that this may end up resulting in lots of duplicate junk accounts littering nostr when someone else eventually is annoyed enough to spin one up that ISN'T blocking content.
This article (by nostr:nprofile1qqsz88ymt0mt3yeasf2xrckknts5uqdzpgz0sez64wfefzsuudlxdfgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qfuqa3k ) is some further reading goes over several of the reasons why artists will likely be forced to use decentralized systems eventually. I think it's VERY important to accept and prepare for this both on the creator end and the developer end: