I agree on the distinction between bots and scum, and scum’s rights to free speech, but I also wonder if there is a middle ground for users to make decisions about what they want to experience. I think this is walking a line, and nothing should be automatically removed. But, what if there were content labels that gave power to each person to opt in or out of certain “topics” or sentiments or xyz. This puts the onus on each of us to step outside of our own echo chamber and walk that line ourselves, and is really about developing tools that enable us to do that. Or do that in doses, as we see fit. I think transparency and high levels of configurability, if done well, could offer something valuable. I, as a user, reserve the right not to listen just as they reserve the right to speak

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I have no issues at all with *optional* filtering of any content at the user's discretion. In fact, I am 💯 in favor of that. The only thing I'm not in favor of is an external "authority" telling both relay operators and users what they are/aren't allowed to consume.

Completely agree!

This is the way.

wouldn’t such content filters simply be the actions of : follow, unfollow, block, mute?

every user is free to filter content according to their wishes and desires

Yes - at its most basic level. But I also think there are tools that we can build that makes this easier, more granular, and improve the user experience. It could be labels that aid in discovery or labels that aid in avoiding hate speech, or even groups of labels that I might want to use if I’m working vs social vs doing research. My wishes and desires may not always be the same at any given point in time, or nostr gets so big, blocking every single troll becomes a negative and annoying experience. I just think we can improve the blunt instrument, while still maintaining transparency and choice.

interesting ideas

I figure the FOSS structure of Nostr will allow free market competition where the brightest devs make the slickest clients and users naturally gravitate to those clients

it’s already growing better almost by the day

#nostr