Except it's not like mastodon at all. You don't lose your notes and they can only be censored in the community itself (which is the moderator's prerogative), not in the rest of the nostr network.
I've been making community posts and they show up as regular kind 1 notes on Damus for the people who follow me. Uncensorable.
Why are we bringing reddit moderator tyranny to nostr? It’s why I left reddit in the first place.
Curation is still important when building communities. Hashtags are terrible noisy solution.
Nostr communities have the perfect free market competition since no one owns a communities name, anyone can create and curate their own version of /n/bitcoin.
It's not like reddit at all.
How do you determine the “right” one in the presence of many name clashes
Reputation, nb of members, nb of members in your contact list, activity, etc.
I still think private relays would be a much better solution for this kind of thing, and more decentralized. You would just have a relay for your community, like a discord. Then the moderation is simply whatever techniques they want to employ of the relay side (paid, friend-of-friend-invite, open, etc).
We need better tools on the client side for filtering views and talking to private relay communites, and not treating them like whatever is in your current pool.
How are topical relays not the same as mastodon and Lemmy? It's a huge entry barrier and the if notes only live there, you can actually get censored.
Not to mention the UX of adding topical relays on your clients and managing different relay feeds sounds like a nightmare compared to nostr communities.
