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If I remember correctly they contacted me and I had a call with a guy from Twitter where he told me Bluesky's goals were to build a protocol for which Twitter could become a client in the future, to which I said Nostr was a perfect match, then he asked me if I would consider becoming the lead Bluesky person they would pick for leading the effort, and I said ok but asked if it would be acceptable if I just used Nostr as it was as "the Bluesky" without considering the other proposals and he didn't know what to say.

Then he put me in a secret group chat with some other people including SSB people, Mastodon people, the GUN guy and people from a bunch of useless IPFS projects. Supposedly the group was gathered to work together in creating this Bluesky protocol, but I read the entire conversation and it was 100% people just shilling their own projects, so I talked a little about Nostr and the first feedback I got was: "how do we ban people? it looks like it would be very hard to ban", so I said that was the idea and the conversation ended. Maybe Jay Graber was in this chat, but I don't remember reading any messages from her.

Some time after that supposedly this group produced a "report" containing all decentralized protocols in existence and a comparison between them, but it didn't include Nostr. I think the group didn't produce anything and this was likely a solo effort from Jay. The group continued its useless, sparse conversation and Bluesky the company was created through some other means of communication.

“How do we ban people?”

Besides kicking people off of relays, can we have a PoW npub based democratic system? Similarly like Bitcoin mining.

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...to ban people?

At least to more effectively moderate content.

i.e: revenge porn, cp, etc…

Let individuals decide who want to mute. Do not assume you know better than users.

Your statement is far too simplistic on a large scale.

Muting stuff does not make seriously damaging things go away.

Might just as well say “Just let people in the real world decide who they want to rape, rob & kill and if you dont want to see it, then dont look!”

Decentralized self regulation is key.

Note the word: Decentralized.

Raping, robbing and killing are crimes. Looking is not.

You have all the rights to impide raping, robbing and killing. But you have zero rights at telling others what they can look at.

Lol. You do know that there are also a filmer and uploader involved right? 💀

Im going to cut this discussion though. Take care 👋