Idea: Crowdsourcing muting of scammy/spammy users. Muting is a public event, so if some scambot writes me, I can mute them. But if I mute someone, my close friends probably want to mute them too.
Sort of "mutesync" would make our lives much nicer here.
Of course, I would carefully choose people whose mutes I follow, because some people are just drama queens and mute is their final act.
Reporting users/posts already kind of works this way, at least on amethyst. Like if someone I follow reports someone as an imposter, their post will be hidden from my feed. Or at least I think that's how it works
Cool, I did not know that. I mean more "trading scammers" in my inbox than imposters, but I did not report them, only muted.
Yes, this is a useful function that you can delegate to your social graph.
E.g. if an npub got 10 mutes from the set of npubs that are 3 hops away from you (follows, follows of follows...), then it's muted.
However, I think about the other way around. Everything that is not in the whitelist is not shown.
Whitelist can come prepopulated by social graph (again, think about all npubs from 3 hops from u)
I don't like the other way, because there we have problem with discovery of cool people.
That's something I'm trying to tackle, especially in situations when you can't use your real world social network (like an anonymous project).
