Yeah good point
They sure have a lot of work to do. The infrastructure side is still terrible and the censorship game is growing.
Which domino will collapse first ?
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Is the censorship game really growing? Things seem mostly fine right now.
Maybe it will come back in a big way in a few years but rn the priority for NOSTR should probably be better security (no one is working on this afaik), better onboarding (people are working on this), and a decent algorithm to help people find content suited to them without crawling through firehose hell and dead hashtags (It looks like maybe some people are working on this? But I couldn't figure out how it was supposed to work last time I used NOSTR)
Yes
WoT relays are growing , and big apps are now censoring users like crazy based on user reports . WoT relays are using the same social credit score algorithm to auto-block users
That's funny. I've been on Threads for the past month saying whatever I want and the only issue I ever ran into was getting mislabelled as spam a few times, but every time I appeal, it gets resolved within a couple of hours. Meanwhile NOSTR is ramping censorship up 🤣
A time where the mainstream Web2 sites are loosening their moderation and taking a relatively free speech approach is not a time where you want to make things worse on alt platforms.
NOSTR has to do something though, no barrier to entry puts all the burden on clients and Web of Trust isn't enough to solve the problem on its own. You have to have some kind of system to make the calculation for who's real and who isn't for NOSTR to work. Maybe paid relays really are the only way to make it work.
Eventually you'll probably be able to pick out bots more reliably with AI though so maybe the issue will fix itself in a few years. Hard to say.
