The Latest home feed of Primal is likely the main source of harrassers finding women. or any place where someone has visibility into more of Nostr.

When I am testing Nos people see the posts and respond even though I generated a key 5 min prior.

There are lots of experiments Nostr could try to resolve this issue:

- Turn off aggregator feeds like Latest for a few months

- Ask people to opt into aggregator feeds

- A variation is only make this post available to my followers, so it will not post on aggregator feeds

- Multiple women have asked for blocks which would prevent people you dont want to see your content from receiving it.

The argument “you should stand behind anything you post” falls apart when women post innocous content and they receive harassment. There’s an assumption behind that argument that Nostr exists in a cultural vacuum. However Nostr exists in a world with all sorts of toxic behaviors and those of us building it need to do a better job of not enabling the toxic behaviors within Nostr.

I’d also suggest removing Trending overall as it seems to be a reinforcing feedback mechanism “of free speech is the only speech and everyone else just needs to suck it up. “

Max Fisher wrote a book called The Chaos Machine which takes an indepth look at how Trending feeds reinforce tribal behavior.

Here’s a poorly taken screenshot from the book. Anyone who wants to better understand the mechanisms behind online harassment should read it.