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There is an adult only relay out there already - adult.18Plus.social - their intent was to just have adult content. But if you look at what's on it - it's got all sorts of stuff, not just adult content.

I'm working on getting up a adult/LGBT-friendly relay as well. But I never envisioned it as something that had even a majority of adult content. The new age verification laws in places like Louisiana exempt sites with less than 1/3rd adult content. I expect to fit within that criteria (if it applies to my relay - I think the law only applies to "sites" - not their data providers).

Also, define "adult"… The definition of adult in Sweden is different than in Saudi Arabia. You can't say "all adult content goes over here" - because "adult" is a social construct and Nostr is something that can't be based on one culture's norms.
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Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

All valid points. I was thinking from a purely technical perspective as cultural norms and varying laws are way more complex issues. That's also why I use the term nsfw rather than "adult" since it's much more easily quantifiable - anything you wouldn't want your boss to see over your shoulder.

But even on a technical level, anything that relies on the honour system is gonna be abused, so you got me there.

This is a tricky one because any method relying on the user to classify their own content as nsfw or not suffers from the same weakness.

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s3x_jay 2y ago

I’ve heard it said that a simple answer to a complex problem is almost always the wrong answer. I think that applies in this case.

I’m envisioning a trust type system where someone you trust has rated something as sensitive. Could be a friend. Or friend of a friend. Could be an automated service.

I’m not sure follows will work. You could follow someone you view as an adversary and you wouldn’t want their ratings to affect you.

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Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

A trust based system could work, Nostr Band is basically trialling exactly that. Could also be a private relay where it's easy to get in but if you spam with unrelated content you're booted out.

For this to work though, a special event type dedicated to nsfw content would be necessary, or at the very least some type of standard adopted across all clients for posting certain notes to specific relays, because you can't expect even tech savvy users to have to disable all other relays manually, it's just poor UX.

Simple to implement on a technical level but getting everyone to agree on a standard to implement across the main clients is the difficult bit.