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Agreed but is every relay operator going to spend the hours a day (at least ) to do that work?

Forcing this into individual relay operators seems like something that will force centralisation more than giving relay operators the ability to subscribe to blocklists maintained by third parties whose job it is to create and maintain them.

At first there will only be a few providers but people are very opinionated about how they want their content filtered (if at all) which will drive more competition and therefore decentralization around these block list providers.
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Doug Brown 2y ago

I think the easiest first step is a Reddit-esque voting system, where rather the downvotes are reports of abuse/copyright/etc and when they hit a certain threshold, relays can have auto delete settings to block or delete. That way it’s user curated, but decentralized by relay and that operators desired settings.

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Greg 2y ago

Sounds like a great idea.

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KentuckyChicken 2y ago

And people will generate a million accounts to make all the voting not work. Votes can't work on nostr.

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Doug Brown 2y ago

That’s where we need to work on real verification. NIP-05 was good for the spot in time. I think many have said that. But somehow there needs to be a verification of sorts or the bots will make Nostr just as unusable. I get what Greg is saying but we can’t have blinders that it will just fix itself. We have to at minimum at least think about these things and have ideas on the back burner.