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Moderation has to be done at user level, each one is responsible for their own feed.

Absolutely. That’s what the proposal is all about.

There would be no content moderation forced on anyone. Each user can choose the blocklists they want to utilise including none at all or one they manage themselves.

It’s just a way to allow the community to create an ecosystem of blocklists based on various tags that commonly people want filtered from their feed.

Blocklist providers would be service providers to users, clients and relays so that they don’t have to do duplicate effort in identifying content that will get their relay taken down and/or users to complain about their feed.

If a relay you use uses a blocklist you disagree with then use a relay that uses a different set of blocklists. Or relays that use none at all.

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noKYC ⚡︎ 2y ago

I saved your proposal to read later, but it worries me a lot that we are talking about content moderation in #nostr

We must have some 10k of active users and we already started with this subject. Of course, the vast majority of people are like crying babies and are afraid of freedom, I think the right path is education and not moderation.

Greg 2y ago

Thanks for making time to take a read.

I agree we are still pretty early and I don’t think this proposal would even really come to fruition for years.

I’m just trying to start the conversation because we will have to (at some point) reckon with the people that will use Nostr for truly nefarious purposes.

Please hear one thing if nothing else. This strategy only works if a vast majority opts in. There is nothing about this proposal that is about forcing content moderation on anyone. It’s just helping users and relays to curate their own feed as you’ve stated is your hope.

I agree education and users managing their own feed is the best path forward. I just want to give people more tools to do it with in the future.

npub.xyz 2y ago

"If a relay you use uses a blocklist you disagree with then use a relay that uses a different set of blocklists. Or relays that use none at all."

this is literally same as moving to a relay that *will* choose to host whatever the end user wants, regardless of how unsavory.

Greg 2y ago

Yes. I think we actually agree with each other and I’m not sure if I’ve communicated that very well.

It’s not about eliminating unsavoury content. That’s impossible because of Nostr’s architecture which I agree with.

It’s about isolating it so that bad content doesn’t poison the well.