I’ve been thinking deeply about content moderation on Nostr.
I’m very pro-freedom-tech but there are problems we will need to solve to scale and be acceptable to a wider audience of user.
To help get the ball rolling on improving Nostr’s ability to keep bad actors from poisoning the well here’s a proposal for a freedom maximising strategy for dealing with illegal or just insanity content (as determined by Nostr users)
I know this’ll be controversial so I’m looking for feedback and refinements before trying to build something to get this ball rolling.
https://gregwhite.blog/nostr-content-moderation/
Cc nostr:npub1yye4qu6qrgcsejghnl36wl5kvecsel0kxr0ass8ewtqc8gjykxkssdhmd0
IMO all the moderation problems stem from the fact that a “twitter-like” application has been the focus. We should give up on the idea of a global nostr social media network, and instead focus on small internet communities that form various hubs.
One relay (and maybe some back ups) one community. Let the community police things
Agreed! That future would be supported by this proposal. Communities would be able to choose for themselves what kind of content they want filtered out. If any!
Got it. It’s like a set of tools for mods. Good stuff
Great frame. I may edit the proposal to phrase it that way.
Side note that has to do with none of this, I love your pfp and banner look monk. It’s cool.
I appreciate that eliza! It’s just some public domain art I found online.
Same for my alt nostr:npub1w83qy86qakjqrp8r99cfxpm9ad43tswv3f9xqw87wt8kspdyj3tsqxynzu
It’s really cool. Good eye.
