It was a joke, son

I don't know who, but my cynical side is pretty sure the content will be sexual.

As soon as I've concern trolled every dev I will stop.

Potentially, but I think just having a block list recommendation or trusted filter is not really censorship unless its being forced on someone without their desire to.

You can censor what code somebody can create for an open protocol? You can stop users from using a tool because you don’t like it? Interesting take. Let me know how that goes.

There will be a tool to follow everyone somebody else follows. (I think some clients already have this.) There will be tools to adopt a friend’s mute list. There will be tools to choose an anime gif pfp. If users find those things helpful they will use them. You can’t stop anybody from making them.

This isn’t censoring anybody. Anybody can still write whatever they want.

I get that impression too but I am trying to use good-faith and be as friendly as possible because it actually does hurt me to see people falling into the same trap again.

Cool (seriously), but automate that at your and the entire network's peril however.

blocklists on nostr are admittedly somewhat less of a problem than on the Fediverse because if a blocklist blocks a single person it doesn't also take out a thousand other innocent users like a server blocklist does on the Feiverse. But I am going to predict the future for you. Eventually blocking individuals is not going to be enough. Someone is going to scrape every nostr.json. They are going to make lists of what relays the bad person uses and they are going to add everyone using that relay to a list. maybe they will give the relay a chance to drop posts by that person, or maybe they will just do it,

I am a software developer too and I understand that you're a developer and you want to just sit at your computer and code because it's the part that brings you joy. Unfortunately, now you have responsibilities to people and to the network.

I'm just going to note that I've already seen people on here that think it's just peachy to mass-block people through guilty by association, but have repeated or talked to a specific software developer that they didn't know yet is highly controversial elsewhere and already led to mass blocking campaigns on The Other Decentralized Social Network. Because your posts here are cryptographically signed, the evidence of your transgression is permanent. maybe you'll be forgiven, but already on The Other Decentralized Social Network the answer is: rarely, people share lists full of misinformation or stripped context that never get corrected.