Nostr Web Client

I’ve heard it said that a simple answer to a complex problem is almost always the wrong answer. I think that applies in this case.

I’m envisioning a trust type system where someone you trust has rated something as sensitive. Could be a friend. Or friend of a friend. Could be an automated service.

I’m not sure follows will work. You could follow someone you view as an adversary and you wouldn’t want their ratings to affect you.

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

A trust based system could work, Nostr Band is basically trialling exactly that. Could also be a private relay where it's easy to get in but if you spam with unrelated content you're booted out.

For this to work though, a special event type dedicated to nsfw content would be necessary, or at the very least some type of standard adopted across all clients for posting certain notes to specific relays, because you can't expect even tech savvy users to have to disable all other relays manually, it's just poor UX.

Simple to implement on a technical level but getting everyone to agree on a standard to implement across the main clients is the difficult bit.

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s3x_jay 2y ago

I don't know anyone from the porn or LGBT community who will willingly use a digital ghetto. That proposal is dead on arrival…

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

Of course. My point is how to keep it from becoming one in the first place.

Currently all clients send all notes to all your relays by default. Editing your settings manually to disable all other relays is bad UX so of course people will forget or not understand they have to do it.

So even with a trust system you need something on the client side to direct certain notes only to specific relays.

Either this can be a different event code or an option in the client to specify on the note creation screen if you want it to go to all relays or just a specific one or group.

But either way you need some level of automation if you only want specific content on a relay.

I guess the other alternative would be tell everyone they must make a new key. Most clients use different relay lists for different accounts. But even this behaviour isn't universal.