All Nostr did was make the shadowbanning algo more draconian.
Everywhere else, you risk being added to a blocklist, that is determined by a small handful of people. Here you have to work, to get on an allowlist, that is determined by an even-smaller handfull of people.
Everyone starts out shadowbanned, basically.
Did you mean WoT praise that took place a while ago by this shadowban?
Think Twitter is WAY worse. Feel like my account is throttled, can’t get support to acknowledge that this might even be a problem or even definitively tell me I’m imagining it, and it’s not.
Here someone might ignore my response to them, but anyone who follows sees my posts and if they repost it, it goes out to theirs as well. That’s enough for me.
I can live with the human heuristic-based shadow banning — I understand it and if I really cared could overcome It by making good, interesting replies frequently until grudgingly everyone felt the value I contributed merited a follow.
But the algo on Twitter just caps my reach (as far as I can tell) and there is no merit-based way to overcome that, and no recourse except to quit.
Which I still might one day, but the schadenfreude I experience over there is just too good right now.
I've tried to overcome the shadowban, but it's like I've got npub cooties, and people who interact with me risk catching them.
I can sometimes see them discussing things I've written, elsewhere, but they're just like "I heard someone say..."
She Who Must Not Be Mentioned 🥴
What are you referring to by “allowlist” here? Someone’s kind:3? Clearing someone’s WoT filter?
Yes. Getting followed, boosted, quoted, replied to.
The top accounts have to dig you up, out of obscurity, and actively recommend you to others, in some way.
It couldn't be nostr tho, it's got to be the admins of the nostr clients who can control visibility on their client. Right? If so, I suppose that's technically fine, since other clients will come along to remedy this
