nah they really don't.
smart clients, dumb relays.
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good luck with that on client side only.
no centralized APIs though as it needs to be a protocol level
Dumb protocol, smart policy
I like that but how do we keep censorship decentralized like SMTP?
You mean *unlike* SMTP? Signatures and relay hints
SMTP works at scale but is not sufficiently decentralized. nostr doesnt need all the header stuff just dynamic relay reputation
Easy, same way the experimental feature in element / adblocks do it. You create block lists people can subscribe to in their client regardless of which relay. Both blacklist and whitelist modes. That way people can tailor the experience tp their liking using lists they trust. If a list gets overly censorious you just replace it.
it is very easy to automate the provision on new npubs to spam with so I don't see how blacklists at that level would work at scale
whitelists would work but be suboptimal imho
