You are right. can't you replace all the retarded activitypub bits with nostr ? The administrative and federation side of activitypub is superior
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can you be specific? What parts are superior? On nostr there’s not much to administrate.
Take for instance Pleroma: Everything you can think if is configurable
1. You can control uploads , CDN/s3
2. MRF rules to filter the relay from bad domains to keywords,
3. Set Retention policies for local and federated posts
4. Media Proxy
5. Rate limiters
6. SMTP mailers
7. Administrative GUI
8. A job queue so you never miss posts, very efficient federation compared to nostr
9. Search Plugins
These seem like client features to me, or features not relevant to nostr since it doesn’t put an emphasis on smart servers/relays (which is good)
That's a nostr design flaw
Spam and abuse is easily dealt with on the Fediverse.
Nostr acting like a notepad file open to the public is not working well
It’s worse on the fediverse. Mastodon caches all the media on every instance . It makes it harder to remove CP everywhere
no, the Fediverse does not cache all images by default, You have to configure it to do that. Many do not because of what you said and bandwith
fediverse is inbox model, nostr is outbox. both have their strengths and weaknesses. I like smart clients and dumb servers, fediverse is dumb clients and smart servers. I think smart clients give the most power to the users, which is why its superior for freedom and digitial sovereignty without needing to be technical.
If it’s easy to remove CP on nostr, how exactly is nostr censorship resistant? Seems to me if it’s truly censorship resistant, then removing CP is a real problem.
nostr doesn’t host media.
But it makes it pretty easy to show media hosted elsewhere. And aren’t blossom servers moving towards media hosting?
It's not really easy to remove CP on Nostr. Maybe just easier than on Mastodon.
Censorship resistance is a double edged sword. As Thomas Sowell says, “There are no solutions, only trade offs”.
I’m ok with the death penalty for CP as one of those trade offs.
This is true. I believe CP is one of the very few exceptions to the general opposition to censorship. The question is, how do you do it surgically so that other, acceptable content doesn't get caught up in the net?
It brings up an interesting question. If you can surgically censor something as abhorrent as CP, then you can also surgically censor other forms of speech. And I’m not even sure how you can censor it. Any asshole can create an nsec, link to abhorrent content, post it to multiple relays, and tag it as asknostr. You can ban that npub, but creating another one is trivial. And it’s not like cloaking IPs is difficult. It seems like it becomes a game of whack-a-mole in which any jackass can easily ruin your experience if you happen to be looking at content based on an innocent tag.