It will keep scammers & freeloaders from using nostr but people who truly understand decentralization and censorship will take the time to learn and contribute to it. So yes it will solve the problem.
Many people have this mentality that traffic and numbers equals grow but that's the fiat mentality.
Real growth is organic and slower.
It'll be looked at as a paywall to most people. You're only going to filter the small bots - the ones that should be removed will pay
Most people have the freeloader mentality. They were born in the fiat world so they have a mentality of not wanting pay for any service and don't want to help grow a site by paying.
You can say the same thing about Bitcoin. Most fiat people don't need Bitcoin and they look at it as a scam.
The intelligent people are the ones persisted and took the time to learn Bitcoin because it's benefited them. Same is happening with Nostr. The future requires using your head and learning new things.
It may filter small bots and therw may be ones who pay, but their content will still get deleted. We are talking about them uploading questionable things. The administrators are not going to put up with that because the ISP, hosting, cloudflare are the ones pressuring them to delete it.
Word travels fast when someone gets banned, but when it comes to adult content or questionable content the blame is normally on the user.
Not supporting their behavior. I want it filtered too because "the blame is normally on the user". Just saying punishing a group for an outlier is a problematic approach.
Could be solved by adding a filter to the relays. It's going to fall on someone's head sooner or later. The user, relay, domain owner, etc. Lack of resources is what's limiting a real solution.
There is lots that can be done. Unfortunately the relay software is lacking in features because lack of developers. After all the development of relays is done by volunteers.
I run one and it doesn't even have a moderation panel. You literally have to search through MySQL using the cli to find the note., and it's hard and time consuming.
You're right. It will fall on someone's head, and the people who will fall on is the legitimate people who are using nostr, you and i and everyone else who uses Nostr for legit purposes.
That's why I run my own relay and host my own media because the free relays will eventually get banned from their host, for lack of moderation.
I ran my own hosting service in the past and it's hard because the ISP, cloudflare would police my company,
It's my personal opinion that the hosting companies should not be liable for the material that their customers hosts but unfortunately we live in a world were everything is policed. So until we get the laws changed though the political system we have to play along.
Agree. It was wrong to put the liability where they did but, as always the politicians got their $$ so, we get the short end of the stick.
Writing a filter api for the relay to hook into would solve the problem. Still need moderation, and that's where lack of resources, as you know comes back.
Unfortunately.
We really need to get people together and group up some donations to knock out real issues.
