Made some progress today on moderation infrastructure for relays.
Not released yet, but the idea is, if you're a moderator and you report a post on the relay (via your fav nostr client), the relay sees it and DELETES retroactively the message you flagged -or- the entire post history for a flagged pubkey.
This kind of thing will spur us onward to topical relays and micro relays. Neighborhood relays and community relays. Marketplace relays and SW relays.
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Why would you delete anything? You should be able to block people, or to hide notes you dislike from yourself and/or flag them for others, but why should anyone be able to delete anything? Wasn't Nostr supposed NOT to become another free speech suppression tool?
As soon as you make deletion by moderators possible, it will start getting misused; just have a look at Mastodon where small server βwarlordsβ answerable to no one arbitrarily suppress anything they dislike or disagree with, no matter how truthful or polite it is. It's a bad idea to enable the same behaviour on Nostr too.
Nostr is about more than just being a Twitter clone. It is a protocol that can be used for anything. For example, a discord clone or marketplace. Don't worry, it's decentralized nature and anyone being able to run a relay ensures your notes will not be censored and your speech will remain free regardless of what a single relay does. π€
Essentially it is about freedom. If you are running a relay you might want to delete events and you should be able to. As an author if you got deleted on one relay, you are still free to publish to different one, and if all of them delete you, you can still run your own. BTW this is very similar to not your address not your money... Not your relay, not your events...
