Amethyst seems to both report and also block. The latter might be counterproductive because you become incapable of seeing that account's future spam so you can't again benefit your followers by reporting future posts.
The overall social spam control design needs a rethink.
Please no. Spammers have large amounts of more CPU available to do PoW. Consider a remote controlled botnet army.
Spammers have a massive advantage over ordinary honest users to do PoW. So ultimately you gain not much at the expense of draining the user's battery.
IMO there is opportunity in expanding social web of trust spam filtering. By following someone that means you trust their opinion. More of your friends reporting the same thing means you probably don't want to see it. Perhaps extend this social filtering model beyond per-post to affect entire accounts. I don't have a full plan here. This requires design thinking.
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Amazing seeing people supposedly creating a “censorship resistant” network openly discuss how better to report and block content.
Censorship resistant doesn't mean you can force people to read your content. Users can opt into whatever moderation/filtering policy they want. Both sides of this coin is voluntarism.
Who’s talking about forcing anyone.
Not sure where that talking point comes from but seems people love copying and pasting it
*I* want to be able to see things my “friends” don’t know exist — and even what they think I should never see.
A technology that has me choose between endless spam or ceding the power to someone else to censor what I see — it’s just more of the same.
There’s nothing new, and certainly nothing censorship resistant about such a system.
Why do *you* want to force me to rely on TTPs for preventing spam when trustless alternatives exist?
You can do whatever you want.
I was only posting about their PoW limiting plan being a bad idea because it won't end up working how they expect.
I’m just pointing the absurdity of implying I want to force people to see my content.
If that’s what not wanting to delegate spam-blocking means, then your stance means forcing people to be censored.
You see how absurd that is.
If you want to choose your censors be my guest — but choosing to do things differently doesn’t mean forcing anyone to see anything.
