I used labels extensively in Ditto and even in the Bluesky bridge. I think it's important and we have to embrace moderation services in the near future.
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> and we have to embrace moderation services in the near future
Can you elaborate?
Subscribe to moderator pubkey(s). Their events determine what stuff is visible by default. It's half-baked at the moment but will be exploring it again soon.
Ok, interesting!
But how this fits in the labels scenario?
Bayesian filter rules like SpamAssassin, but somehow crowdsourced with weights affixed by community voting, would be more effective than leaving it to individuals. Anointing moderators that get to arbitrarily determine what is “abuse” has always regressed to rampant censorship. It took all of 5 weeks after Trump was elected for Twitter to turn from “free speech wing of the free speech party” to Milo Yiannapolous and I being the first political bans.
There’s no way that intelligence services and governments won’t quickly lobby whoever moderators are the minute they are responsible for a significant number of users, *even if they are anonymous*. Because pubkeys can prove identity trivially. And at least one will approach governments known to pay good money for censorship.
You can always switch your preferred moderator (maybe a better term could be "curator" nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p ), but your is absolutely a fair and importaant point.
“You can” requires an amount of investment into a service that no reasonable user has. Once you are hidden by the moderators unjustly, you can’t lobby the public on a fair an even ground for the decision to be reversed. Nobody is seeing your posts then.
I agree, the friction for change can be excessive.