Without bona fide blocking, an attacker can spam someone’s replies for others to see, and can continuously keep tabs on their victim’s thoughts and information they post (location etc).

I haven’t come across an effective proposal to stop this— same problem somewhat exists in the fediverse as well, and even any “complete” block can be circumvented by an attacker spinning up a new identity (though a weak barrier is better than nothing).

If there is no solution, I think what people need to consider is that they not regard nostr like a twit*er or facebo*k. This is a place where you have to protect yourself fully— stay anon, don’t leak info etc, all habits everyone should begin to practice in the current surveillance hellscape, so in this way it’s good (but I agree freaking pathetic from a societal pov).

The strongest use case for nostr is for posting truly censorship resistant content, not social media, IMO, even if I primarily use it as social media.

My safety is UP TO ME. I am either fragile or resilient. I can engage or ignore. I can take something personally or pass it by.. or even realize the pain that is trying to produce more pain. But *I choose* my mindset... and my wellbeing.