Nostr Web Client

I’m not intimidated at all, he is doing his own things and that is great, thats what nostr is good at. I’m raising a valid concern that would make me hesitant of building a marketplace. Unmoderated marketplaces is just giving appstores a huge reason to take down his and my app. Weird that you are reading my post this way unless you are just trying to cause drama for no reason.

Ben ⚡️ 2y ago

Would it be possible to build a marketplace on Damus that excludes (filters) illegal items?

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jb55 2y ago

I would build it into my desktop client, seems too risky for damus unless there was some insanely censored setup which I don’t feel like dealing with

Ben ⚡️ 2y ago

Fair enough. Probably better to let the smaller Nostr apps take the risk and see what happens to them.

I could imagine it would be possible to filter out illegal listings with some sort of user voting system, similar to community notes on Twitter.

Bitcoin Jungle 2y ago

That’s just a game of whack-a-mole. All it takes one time for an App Store reviewer to open up the app, see something illicit for sale, and bam, app is gone forever.

Ben ⚡️ 2y ago

That's a good point. It could risk the whole app. Luckily, there will probably be other Apple developers willing to take on the risk for the rest of us.

Bitcoin Jungle 2y ago

Now that iOS has push notification support for PWAs, I think that’s the future. Relying on Apple’s goodwill is not going to work out for freedom tech.

Ben ⚡️ 2y ago

Agreed. Hopefully, PWA is the solution that makes the app store obsolete.

Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

Wishful thinking. If you truly care about decentralization, you should not be using iOS. Apple's phone OS is the biggest centralizing force in tech right now.

Other Apple products are fine. You can use a MacBook and care about decentralization (you can still side-load apps into MacOS). The iOS is just a very hard no right now.