So people are being shadowbanned on nostr now.

I have mixed feelings.

5 people is definitely not enough.

That makes it far too easy to abuse.

The people being shadowbanned aren't even spammers, just people who speak their minds without self censoring.

This could create a culture of holding our tongues out of fear of being censored, like you find on traditional social media.

It gives influencers and Devs way too much power against people with smaller followings. nostr:note1ran5cdgl593ew3nnlmgedw585p39ezdyqw9lxnemm0tze05lrc3syqdp79

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I find this failing for this reason: If I follow 10 people and 5 of them blocked someone, that's half of my trusted follows and their opinion might be valid. If I follow 400 and it's barely enough to have lively feed, 5 of those are barely acquaintances to me. They have their fights I don't care about, it's not happening under my radar.

Also it takes one hellthread to be treated as such. 5 to shadowban is seriously low number.

Come to think, I'd rather use a feature of unfollowing thread. Not to be mentioned in it, block it away, rather than blocking a user. May they speak their shit, just leave me out of it.

True... I've been yapping about it whole day yesterday. Seems a bit not fair if I can say at least. But anywho its implemented... so lets see how that goes... it definitely wont scare me to speak my mind. If that is how I will go ... getting shadow banned for speaking facts and truth let so be it... 🥳😂✨️ it happened on X already... who caaares...

On nostr you have the option to use other clients thankfully. Amethyst is one of dozens. Lots of people are even vibe coding their own these days.

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That would make you wanna censor who you follow? I for one follow many people I am not fully aligned with philosophically.

Yeah if you are using amethyst and you follow 5 people who all mute the same users it automatically mutes the user's they have muted.

It's going to create an echo chamber effect for all the amethyst users.

Turn off "Warn on reports" in the security settings.

This isn't new, the feature has existed pretty much as long as Amethyst has. The whole drama played out 2+ years ago when another dev made a fork called Onyx. Vitor added the toggle to disable it and the fork stopped. Users can choose how they want it to work.

No matter the protocol and no matter the app, you will be censored at the end by users themselves. Whoever speaks bullshit is simply blocked / muted. He is free to talk his mind, but others are free not to listen to his ramblings. So self control always was and always will be a thing. In person, on line, in centralized networks, in decentralized networks. If goal of speaker is to have large audience, than self control is, and will be important no matter what.

Only networks in which people can not filter out users would allow everyone to speak their mind, but those networks would not be used by an average user because people want to have control of data that gets to them. For example, that's reason i don't watch TV anymore.