The client is restricting what events I can publish based off of someone else’s choice. The end.
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The user can use a client that hides likes on their own note if they don’t want to see it. That is actual freedom of speech. Restricting what others can do with their own speech is not and physically impossible. There is no other correct answer.
to actually implement is a relay thing
Yeah, I don’t pretend to know how it all works so it’s interesting to read the replies here. Difficult to achieve I am assuming due to a lot of it being relay dependent too. A NOSTR client should, IMO, mainly offer options/choice for the user and not limit or restrict, but then I guess it’s all within a NIP framework that is interpreted in different ways by different devs/people. Either way, I’m just speaking from a user perspective. And I love seeing everything being debated and evolving.