I like your goals with nostr.watch but I fear there will be problems further down the road re your 2 points:
1) Isn't that all done with expensive AI? eg detecting copyrighted music in YouTube videos or book texts. We can open source such tech (though that is a challenge in itself) but who will have the resources to run that at scale on nostr relays? Big corps again. Already YouTube dominates the video market because it can (or claims it can) deal with copyrighted material. Blocking and censorship is done by machines and thousands of employed content moderators. Nostr relay owners can't compete with laws that already demand this level of censorship and filtering in order not to be sued into oblivion.
2) It won't be easy because any publicly known relay will be subject to (1) above. The only way that works is if relay owners are prepared to break the law and nostr is only used over tor. Which makes discovery difficult and therefore nostr not useful as an alternative to a global twitter/blogging/media discovery platform.
We do need to push for decentralisation but the only real way to do that is with anonymity/ignoring AI DMCAs etc, but that creates a barrier to entry and huge risks for relay owners, which is not good for adoption. A network with nobody on is not much use. Sorry I know that sounds very negative but I've been thinking about how nostr will look in 5 years and I DO see its popularity rising but I just can't see a way around it being dominated almost exclusively by the likes of Twitter and Google, with all the same problems around free speech / censorship of posts that we have now. Nostr works in the short term only when the network is to small for anybody with power to censor to care much care
I think you are right to point this out. I don't see how nostr is different to how the internet started out and has always been but not used. People have alsways been able to publish their words to their own website or to a forum run by a community in a decentralized or partially centralized way. Most just chose not to. Its just as easy to publish your own blog on substack as it is on Habla or write a post on twitter as it to a paid nostr relay. But the risks are still the same in the long term because the relays that are popular are likely to be funded and resourced like twitter or facebook servers are - by big corps. Of course we can use other nostr relays (most won't - that is a certainty) but only in so far as we could use any of the plethora of social media networks that have tried to be the next twitter but nobody ever does because well, nobody else is connected to them. Nostr relays will go the same route once (if) the network expands and we are all back to square one again. On top of all this relay owners will be subject to copyright laws, porn laws, DMCAs, and all other legal compliance laws that twitter has to, and only big corps will have the budget, lawyers and high tech needed to comply and keep their relays running. I hope I am wrong.
No, If someone at twitter blocks you from seeing a post you also don't get notified.? I thought Nostr was supposed to be better than twitter and facebook not its equivalent.
Wow! I have only just learned about Llama. I stand corrected! Thats very impressive. Is it actually as comparable to ChatGPT3 on your linux? Do you have any links on how to do this, I'd like to set this up myself. Thanks for the info.
I love coracle.social! Especially the relay indicators on posts. I'll be happy with one sat just to test my alby account works. ;)
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