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Andrew

I like that the "communities" NIP feels familiar compared to how

subreddits work, but it has one of the biggest weaknesses (in my

opinion) of the Reddit model: moderators of communities/subreddits that

effectively act as feudal lords.

If I want to

follow posts about a topic by using hashtags, I have the freedom to see

all posts tagged with that hashtag, sort them how I want in my feed,

mute posts from specific people, etc.

With the

communities/subreddit model, I'm only able to see posts about a topic if

the moderator of the community has deemed that post is allowed.

This

is kind of the same weakness of the fediverse, because it removes the

centralized power that a platform owner like Reddit or Twitter has, but

it simply shifts that power down one level and puts it in the hands of

mods or instance owners.

Jingles 2y ago

Hey. These are good feedbacks as we are defining how we these “community mechanics” could work on nostr. Here are some thoughts.

1. How do we move from communities are gate keepers to these are quality curated set of notes about a certain topic?

2. All notes request are kind 1, means even if they don’t get accepted, they are like regular notes on every client.

3. Another community type I have added (by hidden right now) is public community, where notes are accepted by default and moderators can remove them later if they don’t see fit.

4. I like hashtags too, so it’s one of the tab, and allow users to follow and browse by hashtags.

5. Community are tagged along with the author, and if a community about baking (A) has bad moderators, anyone can spin up a new baking community (B), and add all the notes that is in that A to the new B community. This way, the best curation will lead and it’s impossible to gate keep contents.

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Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 2y ago

I like the idea of having different models of communities. Some might be better off with stricter moderation - some others might not be. And it is the people's choice what they support and which they leave hanging. x)

So looking forward to this feature!