That's funny. I've been on Threads for the past month saying whatever I want and the only issue I ever ran into was getting mislabelled as spam a few times, but every time I appeal, it gets resolved within a couple of hours. Meanwhile NOSTR is ramping censorship up 🤣

A time where the mainstream Web2 sites are loosening their moderation and taking a relatively free speech approach is not a time where you want to make things worse on alt platforms.

NOSTR has to do something though, no barrier to entry puts all the burden on clients and Web of Trust isn't enough to solve the problem on its own. You have to have some kind of system to make the calculation for who's real and who isn't for NOSTR to work. Maybe paid relays really are the only way to make it work.

Eventually you'll probably be able to pick out bots more reliably with AI though so maybe the issue will fix itself in a few years. Hard to say.