Don’t have a strong opinion on either idea, so I’ll ask questions that hopefully help flesh the ideas out:
Idea 1: How would outbox/inbox model (which most clients seem to intend supporting) affect this? The feature would have to be supported by most relays, no?
Idea 2: How would this work when you don’t want non-followers blocked? Would it be some fancy multi-sig thing where your account would effectively be private to people you approved to see your posts?
Idea 1: I’m no expert on the outbox/inbox model (is there a good summary somewhere?); I suppose you’d want to use a client that’s “mute friendly,” meaning that if you mute someone, your client doesn’t post your content to a relay that doesn’t support the muting feature.
Idea 2: I think the idea would be that it’s basically a private account. All rando accounts are blocked by default. Only whitelisted accounts can see content (whether some or all of it). The question would be whether you want to do all the whitelisting yourself. If not, web of trust could potentially help here, by vetting users according to whatever criteria you deem appropriate and whitelisting them (subject to your override of course).
Fascinating concepts. I need to ponder it longer. It would almost be a different use case for the protocol imo, but that doesn’t mean a bad one. It might make an interesting platform for different kinds of content.
I just posted a separate note on a related train of thought.
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