You've been lucky, then. Not everyone tags / CWs such contents.
But this is mostly a subpost of a conversation in another thread where someone was angered about a client that filtered some post from its 'trending' list.
If we want to see numeric growth in the network, some client will have to become "normal person friendly" and default to filtering. It won't have to be on by default in all clients. Just one or two that people new to Nostr can start out using.
Case in point: I was in a Matrix room. Someone came in and started posting extremely gross images. I left that room and have not returned. In that case, the client I used lacks filtering & blocking options, so other than closing the client until enough time had passed to attract administrators to kill the offending account, leaving the room entirely was my only option.
If leaving the room had not been an option, I would have deleted my account and the client software.
Yeah, normal people don't want to accidentally see NSFW content, because they could happen at inopportune moments. Client filters help, but only if people know how to use them, and many people won't bother learning ... they'll just abandon Nostr entirely.
I'm not sure what the answer is, but it only takes 2-3 times of being surprised by such content before people start to question the value of the network.
Every time I look in the mirror, I keep wondering how I became an old man when I still feel younger than my oldest son.
I hoped for that, but did not expect it.
When I read about Alameda Research having a secret way to grab FTX customers' funds for its own uses (risky investments), there wasn't really any other reasonable conclusion.
Do what's best for you, brother. We don't want you to harm your own well-being for our benefit.
> ActivityPub dislikes us
AP is just a protocol. But, yeah, many #ActivityPub #Fediverse users and admins dislike any other decentralized protocol, because they feel that AP has sufficient penetration that everyone should just extend AP instead of reinventing the wheel.
Famously articulated by Evan, who originated both AP and its predecessor #OStatus.
For the record, this idea is dead wrong. With multiprotocol servers & clients and with bridges, people don't have to care which decentralized protocol someone else uses, and thus #Nostr, AP, OStatus, #Diaspora, ATProto, etc are no longer competitors but allies in the quest to take down the corpocentric (centralized, corporate controlled) networks.
Don't forget the overall goal. We get focused on competing with other decentralized networks when our task is to spread #DecentraLife and deflate #corpocentric networks.
#YaCy is a good idea, but its results are poor. I hosted a couple of peers to try to get better info in its index, but after a year or two of crawling and indexing sites relevant to my topic, real results were generally buried under pages of garbage results.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-plbWl8u2I and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3pBqq2vlJo
A social media influencer's giveaway announcement caused chaos in New York City yesterday.
I don't have any Mac experience, but I shudder at the idea of recommending someone entangle themselves with Oracle (owner of VirtualBox).
> Are you going to try Threads?
No. When I left the Facebook prison, I vowed to never return. All these years later, I still haven't joined any MetaFaceBook service, and I do not intend to do so.
I don't use #Digg / #Reddit type sites, but from my understanding, #Lemmy sites' (which are #Fediverse Reddit type sites) major issues are based around moderation ... and because the main developers and hosts of the biggest instance are marxist-leninist "tankies".
And again, I've never used it, so I only know what I've been told.
1. User-controlled filtering. If you visit the "public timeline" when you're using popular zero-price relays, there's a lot more spam (and porn) than there is actual content. But also, I've come across some really racist & sexist posters.
The ability to quickly and easily filter out most of that would be an amazing improvement.
2. Desktop clients (not using Electron or similar browser-based stuff). Not "grab Rust and Cargo and then type in this incantation" stuff either. Something available in repos like Chocolatey or Debian/Ubuntu would be preferred, but even download on GitHub/sourceforge and unzip to run would be okay.
3. Less hostile to those who are not Bitcoin-only. Some of the people I interact with outside of Nostr are Ethereum users and some are non-crypto folks who fell for "boiling the oceans" propaganda.
4. The mobile clients Damus and Amethyst seem to be polished up fairly well now. They could still use some work before they're ready for the world.
5. More bridges to other decentralized networks. Even if it doesn't seem like it, we're not really fighting one another. We're fighting the big centralized networks, the smaller centralized networks whose architectures don't prevent any of the issues the big networks have, and the public's tendency to believe that the only way to be seen and connected is to use Facebook/Twitter/Instagram etc. If using Nostr means you're also connected to users of $DECENTRALIZED_NETWORK, then we're all pulling together to pry people out of centralized corporate network prisons.
Mostr (bridge to the Fediverse) is a good start, but given the size of the networks, there should be multiple such bridges.
6. Others have noted that easier discovery is needed. I agree.
I think https://legend.lnbits.com/nostrmarket/market is what Bryan is talking about.
I only recently heard of SimpleX, so I haven't even tried it yet.