Only if I disable my spam filter. Then yes I see lots of impersonations with off-topic junk.
I prefer if the relays do spam filtering, but gossip does it pretty well now even if they don't.
Unfortunately Amethyst has become unusable for me now.
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Yeah I think we need both relay and client filtering and settings. We need better management tooling for both.
I was thinking the same thing. In fact instead of what I was planning to work on next, I'm going to build the moderation tool website for chorus.
Back in June I did some work with fiatjaf on NIP-86 https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1325 to create a uniform interface between relays and management software. And chorus supports it on the backend (at least partially). But I'm unaware if anybody has built a NIP-86 front-end web tool designed to moderate relay content yet (showing a queue, 1984 reports, detecting impersonation, etc, etc). So tomorrow I'm going to write some VueJS, something I haven't done for awhile. But I can already tell it is going to be a big project in its own right and so many other nostr devs... someone must already be onto this, right? Do you know of any? A fuck it, I'll just do it my way anyways. I've never been cured of not-invented-here-syndrome.
ive had a mod portal and api for a while, pre86. i will add nip86 support at some point..
people dont seem to use active moderation very much, as its far more efficient to use lists and lightning payments than to sit there deleting infinity replyguy like a nostr caveman 😂 once you start battling with spam a bit more you may have a similar realization.
yeah I like your take on it, I was thinking a very simple API like client requests relay’s metadata - response shows supported NIPs etc. and then some general-purpose key:value interface for arbitrary data?
Something small that could still be put behind an npub interacting via NOSTR itself as the interface, eventually, i.e. silent DM the relay API queries and commands, ecash 🥜 optional 🤔
I have been reading the nip 86 thread and looking for management tools, and trying to figure out the chorus command line that has no docs yet. I thought Gossip was awesome, but Chorus! wow. PoW and WoT will be forged using the gossip model.
I agree. Relays can work at the network level by eliminating the most obvious attacks, while clients can offer fine-tuning preferences to strengthen filters as needed.