“It _deprecates_ both NIP-36 and NIP-56 and _requires_ paid relays to _accept moderation reports_ from unpaid users if the content being reported is on the relay”.
Your words. Literally.
It doesn’t ‘deprecate’. It offers an alternative.
Relays aren’t ‘required’ to do anything in a NIP. And to ‘accept’ reports…
Everything that can be done with NIP-36 & NIP-56 can be done with NIP-68/69. It makes no sense to have competing methods of doing something as basic as reporting illegal content.
They won’t be the first NIPs they have been deprecated. NIP-08 is deprecated already - and that was also a really basic function where it was counterproductive to have multiple ways of doing it (mentions).
Only NIP-01 is mandatory. No one is forcing any relay to implement NIP-69.
Deprecate = "to withdraw official support for or discourage the use of (something, such as a software product) in favor of a newer or better alternative"
Yes, it "offers an alternative to", but by 69 saying it deprecates 36 & 56 - what that means is that the approval of 69 will result in the deprecation of 36 & 56. I don't see why anyone would want multiple competing solutions for this.
All deprecate means is that 36/56 are losing "favor". There's nothing about them that indicates that they were particularly well thought out. They checked a box that was needed by the App Store. It was "good enough" for the moment, but we've moved beyond that now.
