I think the client is also the wrong place to put censorship. Censorship shouldn't be applied to the feeds of all users of an app.
You should be able to "subscribe" to censorship groups that are meaningful to you, based on your lived experience.
A woman who gets ugly messages from creeps would subscribe to a censor that is dedicated to detect that type of content. Maybe she also wants to subscribe to the shitcoin censor which filters shitcoin giveaway scam bots, but not necessarily! Maybe she's a shitcoiner and enjoys this content, and would actually want to subscribe to a censor that filters out toxic bitcoin maxis instead 😄
Censorship is great, as along as anyone is free to select which filters they use.
What's your take on this nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl ?
Completely agree, that these should be filters you can subscribe to in a client (similar to what primal does with mute lists already). I was thinking more about how we could create those lists.
What we still need to figure out...
- How do we collaboratively curate filter lists? We don't have a tool for that yet (listr.lol has no group feature yet).
- How do we get them to be topic specific (aka composeable)?
Yes, great questions.
I think topic specificity would sort itself out naturally. People could create a censor with a stated goal/mission. Those that have an unclear or overly broad mission will not attract many subscribers/participants.
Not sure what is meant by composability, but I think you should be able to subscribe to as many censors as you want.
Concerning the curation part, I think there is actually a huge opportunity to even make this enjoyable, e.g. through gamification. Prolific 'hunters' of specific unwanted content could get a top spot on a leaderboard, and receive zaps from satisfied subscribers.
