One interesting part of nostr right now is that the “twitter block” feature does not exist.
Will it ever be possible to selectively block people on nostr from viewing your feed or respond to your posts?
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Cant stop someone from viewing your feed or responding, unless the client they are using and others are using implements that.
This is where I expect relays will also need to be involved - whether to forward certain messages or not. And from there whether accept / reject responses on certain notes.
Clients should eventually be smart enough to look at the public blocklist of Alice and not render notes from Bob if Alice blocks Bob.
Yes, but I am also certain this behavior of sending all of the messages to all of the network will not persist long term. Relays will eventually start filtering... refusing to route or provide information.
I don't see that this can be exclusively done on clients also because users will not use clients that limit them.
awesome
Would it ever be possible to limit dms to a whitelist? Aka people you follow could be the whitelist for your dms? Or is that not possible for individuals.
Hope not
I'm more worried about spam in the near term. It will be exceedingly efficient for spammers to generate new keys and even NIP-5s, and deluge us. There's inevitably going to be A LOT of work in relay software and clients to counter that. But it's coming. Because of course there is. There's money to be made.
Spammers can only spam “general”, feeds are curated by clients not by other users, or relays, or advertisers, or spammers.
Replies and DMs.
that can be solved, by only showing you messages from people you follow, information that clients already have. If there are replies from strangers it could collapse them/hide them and let you choose to open them.
Yeah. There's many ways to solve it. But they all have trade offs. If you only allow messages from people you follow, it reduces the ability to meet new people. Like, I'm not following you right now (and I'll give you a follow), so under that solution, you and I wouldn't even have had this interaction.
it is possible to make whitelisted relays, and these could be used to aggregate well-known users in the nostr-verse. then you only need to add that one relay (or a relay which syncs with it) to essentially follow all the whitelisted users.
I think there are some efficient filtering methods for this now. I guess we will find out.
100%
Who’ll be first to retrofit SpamAssassin?
one of the interesting parts of the web right now there is no way to prevent someone from seeing public information on the web.
will it ever be possible to selectively block people from seeing information that is digitally distributed?👾
mute maxi
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true, users will be able to mute client side, but not block
block has always been a lie
I always thought it was funny how you could see someone who blocked you’s tweets just by logging out
exactly! just open an incognito tab
You can see all the blocked posts for about 5ms before the big black frame loads on top of the blocked content.
On Twitter you still receive all the data/content that you are supposedly blocked from.
Word
Mute > Block
Why would you want that? I hate that "feature" on twitter.
Only on clients.
is you being able to restrict what others see really a good thing?
nope, I do not block anyone on twitter but many do
The Twitter block feature was and still is a terrible idea.
Threads get destroyed and misunderstandings abound.
And now the minimum standard has been set so that any social app must exclude the feature.
Banishment in the digital space was always a nonstarter.
Threading is terrible in any 1 dimensional list.
Threading is by definition a tree.
It was more about the “who is talking to X because Y has me blocked and it seems like a really good thread. Time to flip over to my *accounts that blocked my main Twitter account* to read it” feeling.
And now the minimum standard has been set so that any social app must ~exclude~ **include** the feature.
Certain clients will eventually add this feature and they'll be blocked on that user's feed. It would essentially just be a per user filter. If they were to go to another client then they would see the blocked content. This is what Damus is adding to get the go-ahead for Apple, I believe.
Nostr is censorship resistant.
Once you sign your note and send it to n number of relays it belongs to the network after that.
Censorship resistance works both ways
Truly censorship resistant freedom protocol 🙌
I'm enjoying that very much. And it's not looking like that's going to change soon.
I believe Apple is requiring this feature before they will approve Damus for release in the app store, so afaik #[2] is working on it