What if nostr becomes toxic, too?
Your could block users that behave like shit, but you can do this in Twitter, too...
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Is there anything else we can do to keep nostr asshole free besides using paid relays, report / block functions and hoping for good behaviour encouraged by the urge to earn sats for friendly notes?
I hope the lack of an algorithm and the zap incentive fixes this.
Nostr will become more and more localised over time.
This idea of a āglobal town squareā is genuinely stupid and destructive to communities and only helps activists who can rally people across jurisdictions to idiotic causes like ājust stop oilā and āchange the codeā.
Besides activists reaching smaller audiences in smaller nostr communities, how exactly can nostr communities protect themselves from assholes joining a relay and loading off their shit?
Or do we hope that they rather talk about in front of bigger audiences? Seems not impossible, but I'd be happy to hear a solution with higher chances of keeping nostr civilised...
That will be a function of going more localised. Think of city subreddits as an example, on nostr theyāll form around private (paid) relays and not be gatekept by psychotic leftists but rather by the community itself as theyāll be more economic than purely social.
We shouldnāt be trying to reach the entire world with every message but rather be reaching interest groups.
So when I post stuff for #AUStriches thatās probably not relevant for you, but maybe we have crossover of interests on Bitcoin and some other things so thatās where we meet.
I basically never check the global feed on nostr, only the follower list.