The original reason Vitor gave me was some repeat posts that Wino made 2-3 months ago. I deleted them (after a lot of effort) and the block went away. Then it randomly appeared back at some point without any further explanation.
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Web of inferred-muting/blocking/hiding is inherently flawed.
For starters at least N of your ‘network’ needs to make an manual effort to report or mute.
Secondly, if it is an attempt to hide repetitive posts, they can be detected far easier without human interaction.
Third, there is no visibility of what your missing. Damus shows ‘Post by muted user’ which helps at least make it opt-in and obvious something you’re not seeing has been masked.
Likely worst of all it literally is a guaranteed way to bubble your network - accidentally, or maliciously if someone creates a few accounts, gets followed by a few people you follow, and then use those malicious accounts to hit the N limit.
I’m defence of how this was considered - must of the spam we faced a couple months ago was repetitive and dumb. Long term it will evolve and any benefit lost anyway.
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Your profile picture is one that’s become a robot for me btw. So weird because I can see the rest of your profile and even your background photo. Not sure if it’s a damus caching issue for image host. Is it one of the common ones or self hosted?
Loaded fine after messing with cache. Think there’s a new bug here.
I use gravatar. I was kind of surprised it wasn’t use by more people - but it does use a hash of an email to generate, and that’s a weird UX for Nostr/decentralised on-boarding.
However I’d imagine way more people have a profile with Gravatar and we likely would need as many robots causing global warming.
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