Correct me if I am wrong...
My understanding is that #nostr does not support content moderation (even if we had an equivalent of communities)
Moderation means handing over the job of deciding what belongs and what doesn't to a set of people - this is centralization.
And... this can lead to censorship - the very thing we strive to defeat using #nostr.
Is my understanding wrong? Is there a way to do content moderation using #nostr already?
#musings #questions
Can’t a relay runner add some simple logic to keep out certain content? That’s what I thought, although it’s mitigated by there always being another relay you can connect to.
I'm not sure about the formal definition but I'd consider keyword mute/block lists to be a part of that.
I think there's some discussion on it using proposed NIP-69 by Rabble (it's shares the NIP number with polls because polls is not yet merged into the protocol) & NIP-36 for marking content as sensitive is already live in a few clients.
It's not up to the base protocol. Nostr only sends signed messages back and for. If people want to create moderated chats, they can use those messages to build any moderation stack needed.
NIP-28, for instance, has some moderation capacities that clients may or may not follow. NIP-56 is about moderation via content flagging. NIP-36 is about self-moderation. DMs are basically a moderation tool for everyone but the two people talking to one another. The new scheme to only see the full content after paying an invoice is another moderation tool. NIP-82 for health data uses a per-message consent-to-see stack. These are all, technically, "moderation"
Relays have full moderation capacities because they can delete anything they don't like.
This is a new perspective for me :)
Particularly the list of moderations that are already there in nostr!
Thanks a lot for your inputs 🙏
This made me think harder about what moderation is and how it operates on Nostr. Just because the centralized aspects are weakened or not present, doesn’t mean that moderation is impossible on a decentralized network. In fact, maybe moderation becomes even easier in a way because it can be wielded by individuals that have never been able to do it before.
Interesting!
