Subnostr

Telling people that a game mods site is being developed on nostr, explaining how everything can be posted and can't be stopped, can't be censored or removed and nobody can be 'bamned' is interesting.

It's extremely easy for me to understand #nostr, even before it was developed and announced, but for most it's extremely hard to grasp that idea because they're thinking on a safety front.

"You have to censor the illegal posts right? Otherwise..."

I can't.

"Sure allow almost everything, but you gotta remove the morally questionable..."

I can't.

"You're allowing everything? You won't even get rid of..."

I can't.

That has been my answer to people, along with a "best I can do is hide them" with a few attempts of explaining things with examples (like imagining it as an internet browser, for example).

It'll continue to be interesting to see these kinds of reactions and them figuring out how this would work out morally and legally and through other lenses

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makomichi the wolf of weeb street 1y ago

People have a hard time grasping the idea of not having an authority doing the work they should be doing: hiding stuff they don't want to see or avoiding it completely.

Freakoverse 1y ago

Pretty much. The last barrier that they can't seem to get over is the extreme cases like CP. My answer to that, which they'd still have a hard time grasping, is similar to what if an internet browser showed it: Hopefully the cops catch the CP poster.

That's about it xD

I'll be honest, no bad feelings for those peeps or me dissing them, but its very entertaining watching them trying to comprehend that. Though once someone does understand it, I'm so happy that they reach that point =3

makomichi the wolf of weeb street 1y ago

Whatever pedos can do on the dark web, they will be able to do anywhere else. I always like to remind people that Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord are full of walled CP groups, and it's usually where pedos get caught (at least in my country). You don't need to surf the web to find this stuff, you need to find contacts. Nostr really won't protect pedos more than they already protect themselves. What's stopping anybody from using inscriptions on blockchains that have no authority to upload this stuff? Just apply a filter/mute, file a report, and pray that the offenders screwed up somehow. That's about it. That's the only downside of censorship-resistant platforms and how you deal with it.