I think we can implement a composable moderation system similar to bluesky, where you can choose moderators or operate without any. The default should be some reasonable level of labeling and guardrails. Users should be allowed to run with no moderation or just with their network. Those just don’t work great for new users, nor a bunch of other communities who would greatly benifit from Nostr. Freespeech doesn’t mean you’ve got the freedom to force others to listen to you. ;-D
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Have yall implemented choose Ed Snowden to be my moderator feature yet?
Easy packaging hasn’t arrived yet on Nostr.
Could be a bundle of setup (onboarding) tools, moderation, infra (relays, file hosting & storage) etc. This becomes more pronounced with video content.
For the end-user, it should be as easy as making a centralised social media account. The difference might be in the payment model (no-ads (subscription) / ads).
If the composable service elements can be bought separately there could be even hosting companies offering these for more advanced uses and small-businesses but Wordpress.com type consumer offering is a more likely path.
An interesting idea, how to replicate the Mastodon instance in Nostr? The community would mainly interact within its instance (private relays) but with moderation could ”federate”.