Block isn't real, since it can always be circumvented. It's a lazy way to remove people from your audience. As in real life, you can't control the actions of others, you can only control your own actions. The affordances we have for protecting ourselves in the digital world are limited by the nature of communication and cryptography.
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Of course anyone can spin up a new account and continue harassing someone, but it’s one more layer of protection, to at least tire some fraction of bad actors
If blocking is so limited to begin with, why not just have it then 🤷🏻♂️
Because it's impossible in a decentralized protocol
You can block on mastodon, nostr relays have been able to filter traffic too
Why not here? I’m not technical so I could be missing something
Mastodon is federated (many-centered), not decentralized. Relays can block stuff here too, but a relay blocking something does not block that thing for its users, unless they only use that relay.
Could you have a network of relays voluntarily adhere to a blocklist?
This conversation is probably outside of my pay grade. 😩😂
Example: So you will probably block porn or illegal content on the Christian options on Nostr correct? Or will you allow porn accounts to spam users?
Spam is (partly) solved by muting, because they want your attention, and you can simply deny them that using various tools for classifying content as undesirable. Harassment isn't solved by muting because they want other people's attention as well as yours.
But yes, Christian relays can (and should) block porn.