Public relays are important. They’re how you talk to random people outside your community. But they’re likely to purge your posts after a while. Community relays are home base.
More like all the people from a particular community write to one or two relays plus randomly to some public ones. If you want the best content for a particular community you’ll subscribe to one of the ones that’s favored by that community. If you want to be seen and heard in that community you’ll pay for those relays.
Spot on! There is definitely a fundamentalist/evangelical quality to the bitcoiners on Nostr.
Agreed. Having both is really confusing to new users. Especially when the “handle” allows spaces. Like, how then is it different than the display name?
> “Everyone knows everything, eventually.”
That concept terrifies LGBTQ folks in homophobic environments.
The fact it doesn’t terrify you means you have privilege.
Take a moment to be appreciative of your privilege.…
It already started in 2016.
Same goes for NIP-33. It’s clear as mud. I had to look at the NIP for badges to kinda understand it and I’m still not sure I quite got it right.
No, what I’m saying is toxicity is contagious. If you nip it in the bud early it won’t spread.
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GN #nostr
Today is the 13th anniversary of my forum site. If I’ve learned anything over those years it’s that nothing kills a social media community faster than toxicity. You simply can’t put up with rudeness. You have to make people feel like their part of something worthwhile.
Disagree all you want. But be polite about it. Honor facts over conspiracy theories. Honor first person experiences.
There’s a new season? Awesome. Love Upload…
Growing up my first dog was a Vietnamese mutt who had patchwork eyes. One eye had 2 colors, the other had 3 colors.
Interesting story on how we got him… My parents got a call from the airport saying “your dog is here, please come pick him up”. My mom responded “We don’t have a dog.” “Are you [insert names here]?” “Yes.” “Well, your dog is here.” “Where is he coming from?” “Vietnam.” “We’ll be right there.”
My sister was in Vietnam with the Red Cross during the war. Her Red Cross troop had adopted a puppy and it was getting “of age” (apparently ‘young dog’ and ‘old cat’ are tasty). So she put the dog in a crate, slapped my parents contact info on it, and put him on a plane. And that’s how I got my first dog…
That said, there will be fully private relays that require membership to read. Those will be hard to monitor.
The way I describe it to people is it’s like having a conversation in a crowded noisy bar. Everyone can see who you’re talking to, but they can’t hear what you’re saying.
As others have noted it should be off by default. But I can see it being useful for things like posts with pretty pictures when you're on vacation.
One approach would be to gather data (stored locally) that figures out locations where the person often is and have a "Are you sure?" prompt if they're in one of those locations. It's one thing to geotag a post in a place where you rarely are. It's another one to geotag a post with your home location.
What I’d like to see is everyone _can_ have moderator status. You just have to get people to designate you as one of their moderators.
That’s equitable, no?
I’d like to get it right the first time. Even if the details are worked out later.
Ummm… The way you handle things blocked nostr.wine. They’re not spammers.
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Thinking about it (casually)…
There needs to be a a block list for a relay that could be published under the pubkey of the account designated by the relay. I’d need to investigate the best way. I’d like to see things like a `reason` code that uses the “NIP-69" coding #[2] & I have proposed plus an `evidence` option that’s a comma-delimited list of nostr IDs and URLs that support the decision.
I also want `severity` and `confidence` options. Severity would be scales that define the level of “offense” within a defined category. And confidence would mostly be used by bots (e.g. they think they see nudity but they’re not sure).
Thoughts?
We really need the thing #[2] was demoing the other day that embeds what relay you saw something on. I get “profile not found”.