I have not blocked him myself. He is the one hitting spam filters, the same ones that catch most of the airdrop scams on nostr. That filter is enabled by default for all new users. Then they can disable it if they want.
We are one of the biggest clients exactly because of the choices we make to protect new users while giving them the option to disable it when they are ready.
Heya, how did you change that text under your name?
I remember when nostr:npub12z8jsett3k6rv9fa2guau5p540qr2xuvjzkr8e432mglafjt99sqkw9zmx was flagged by primal constantly for her posts! I guess we gonna fail if such approach will exist! He is not the bot, he is not spamming, yes he is trolling and he is saying niga words or he hates jews, I don’t think that he should be not visible and censored ! Bad precedent we have !
That approach will always exist. The real question is about free market and value. If you think those things should not be blocked, I am sure a client and a relay that don't block those is going to appear and take over all the clients with filters today (which is all of them).
I think clients without filters have existed and failed miserably. Turns out people don't like seeing those things and just migrate to clients that offer better content out of the box.
The free market will choose the winners.
In the end, you can always say what you want on Nostr. But that doesn't trump the reader's right of choosing the best content.
You all are dependent on opensats, jack, VCs - so I guess your point about “the fee market” doesn’t exists here ! Nostr will never see new users and gonna loose because it’s small and the censorship precedents are being pushed between the devs and since it’s small network and few people working on it the coop between few of you might kill it and you will end up like a woke bluesky! Basically nostr is already one step there !
The point remains. Even with all the money from open sats, there should be a client that takes over if people want to see that content.
Remember, the money is also part of the free market. It's his private money. There is no government or dictator forcing you to use the current filtered apps.
No! Nobody is interested in nostr! And will not be ! Ask yourself why any old school cypherpunks or experienced cryptographers haven’t stepped in ?!
This feature should be more noticeable, or explained better, perhaps have a link to docs, or guides, or a tab that says help.
The fact this feature is hidden away leads to an opportunity for it to be abused by censoreous entities.
It's ok to hide away bots, and spammers but an alteration to the algorithm may be beneficial.
Let people see most things by default because first it's nostr:nprofile1qqsr836yylem9deatcu08ekfj8qj9f2aypq8ydt0w8dyng8zp8akjsqprpmhxue69uhhqmmnw3jhytnsd3skxef0wfjkccterh4j4t for being "racist" then it's nostr:nprofile1qqsr26r4lltjnvrwadxp67ns58m4qpzaqemhf5sup7hlujhjh7t296qprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qy8hwumn8ghj7mn09eehgu3wvdeqzrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz77f8s05 for being Christian then it's nostr:nprofile1qqsd3fhv7rped64g77dyf9l7ndmae9mkxdz37099cc6wyzr9jytxg7cpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcj0d0xq for being Cypherpunk then Nostr becomes a quasi Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon echo chamber where only allowed opinions™ are allowed.
It needs to be modified to prevent the slippery slope into tyranny, let people chose their own experience, don't have an experience decided for them by default.
