If there’s one true “crisis” of Nostr, it is porn bots.
I am personally fine with muting/blocking things like this, and moving on, but THIS kind of content and bot, is the real enemy of Nostr's growth for “normies”.
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It all depends on the relays you commect to & if filters are on or off, the problem is filters aren't customizable. Momostr.pink is a relay flooded with gay kid porn posting bots & in betweem it all is some real people with interesting content that's not porn but the filter doesn't let me shift out the porn to see it.
Nostr clients need flexibility in filtering npubs a control to categorize npubs into groups & then hide all of those npubs based on the grpups they are in. You can add npubs to list now how can we use those list to also be a filter list to hide npubs?
Real freedom is not for everyone. If people are afraid of seeing stuff in the internet they don't like they will have to stick to centralized/censored platforms.
Agreed, as I said; I’m personally fine with this, I’ve done self-custody for over 10 years, self-curation on Nostr is hardly different, I just find too many Nostritches that want to “have their cake and eat it”, embed censorship in Nostr “only for the bad guys”.
I commend the effort, but I believe it’s naive, Nostr was built for freedom, this is the price we pay.
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I coded a prefiltering proxy for my public #relay so I could blacklist certain npubs from writing junk to my relay. I support free speech, but not free reach. They can host their own content, not use my resources which takes availability away from other users.