Nazis say it's the Democrats that prey on children.
Teenagers aren't going to use nostr anymore than they use Twitter or Facebook. I wouldn't be too concerned about Nazis preying on teenagers. And Nazi teenagers are illiterate, so they aren't here either.
Besides, I like Nazis. They say the stupidest shit. They're like, evil clowns that you can spit on. You can't make fun of Nazis on Twitter, Musk will ban you. But here, you can make fun of the little snowflakes as much as you want.
Nazis say a lot of shit, they aren't worth seriously listening to. And if nostr succeeds, those teens will be here in droves. It'll be the hot place to be. Even if you don't want to censor the relays to protect the children, do you really want your global feed full of dumb kid shit? Eventually, everyone's going to want some moderation just to filter out the unending deluge of shit they couldn't care less about.
Oh, good god, stay away from the global feed. You can't moderate or filter the global feed in any way.
If you're wanting, or expecting the global feed to be moderated, that's not possible. That's where the censorship resistance expresses itself. There's no mechanism that can stop anyone from posting anything to the nostr global feed.
Your nostr client is designed to pull from the global feed things your interested in. Any and all moderation is done by you, using your client. That's the point. Your not getting just the things that someone else has decided to show you. That's more of a Mastodon thing.
Follow people and hashtags. Use a DVM. That's those, list generators that pull say, the most zapped posts for the last 24 hours.
As for your concerns about children accessing inappropriate shit on the Internet. Well, they're going to unless you stand beside them at all times and watch everything they do. There is no other way to stop them. Any company selling you anything that purports to keep children safe on the Internet, is lying.
Yeah, I'm realizing just how trash the global feed is, but there doesn't seem to be another obvious way to find people and tags to follow or content of interest. Amethyst doesn't make any alternative suggestions, so to the uninformed newbie, the only real choice is to check out global, which feels like finding a pile of dog shit and intentionally stepping in it. I've built up some tags and found a few people to try following, but I've never even heard of a DVM until now, so I'll check that out, thanks.
And as for the kids, I don't wanna ruin stuff just for them, but they're gonna do the same thing I did, start browsing global because they don't know any better, and they're gonna run into the Nazis I found. Or the literal self professed pedo who posted CP that I found. Thankfully, his content got pulled off the hosting servers because I didn't need to actually see that shit. Global is a toxic shithole, and the solution is NOT to moderate the whole thing, but I don't think that means there's no room for something like individually moderated relays. Users would be free to just leave them if they disagree with the moderation policies, but users who want it could have the option to use it, and parents could have a family friendly option to ease their kids into nostr. Eventually, the protections will need to come off, and the kids will need to learn how to identify and avoid such content and why it's wrong, but just tossing them on nostr with the global feed and nobody followed is like teaching a kid to swim in the middle of the ocean with a storm on the horizon.
