I'm warming to the idea of them. Bluesky has this awful blocklist culture, so I've been leery of lists, that said, something that had a handful of people to follow, some relays, a client, a signer, etc would be cool
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I like lists and the potential to use them for filtering. I don't like blocking people too much though. Maybe we should try to call the nostr version "filter lists" to suggest you should use them to filter posts from a feed, not entire people from your awareness.
To be clear, this seems to be a new thing from after I was banned, I just know the Bluesky community is too anti-woke for it to be good.
Somehow this is a reply to the wrong one of my posts in this thread
I just don't love the mass blocks and blocking people you've never interacted with just because someone else you've never met put them on a list. I understand this is somewhat of a gray area, and there are probably lists of people that need to be blocked, but Bluesky has this weird culture of celebrating these blocklists. I just don't want that on Nostr. I do like the term "starter pack", less technical, reminds me of a trading card game or something
I was the #1 most blocked person on bluesky when I was there and a lot of it was just people who run blocklists putting me in every block list they could think of regardless of whether I actually fit there or not. I feel you. But I can't wait to have the tables turned where all of those people can be filtered out at the flip of a switch, and I want to embarrass them by ensuring when they're not the only ones with that power anymore, they're still the only ones using it maliciously.