Great explainer if you need to know how giraffes stack up in the meta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBNOH1jhEUg
Just opened up some more slots for Nos on TestFlight. Join us! https://testflight.apple.com/join/YBBlRWc8
No we caught it before it made it to the public beta group.
Some of the people who've seen what #[0] & I have been proposing in "NIP-69" seem to think the objective is censorship. So to day I sat down and wrote out the bigger "vision" of where I'd like to see content moderation go on Nostr. Feel free to give it a read:
https://s3x.social/nostr-content-moderation
Just realize it's a first draft and needs work. But the point I hope I get across is that I want to see something that's individual and "bottom up". To me censorship is always top down since at the core of censorship is some authority flexing their power and enforcing their idea of what's good and bad - overriding your idea of good and bad.
Instead I want to see a cacophony of voices with individuals choosing which voices in that chaos they want to listen to for filtering their feeds. (Or they could choose to listen to none and see it all.)
But systems have to be put in place to make that a reality. It won't happen by accident.
And yes, the government will always force a certain level of censorship on us. But there are ways around that. For example our relay can't have anything related to escorting on it thanks to FOSTA/SESTA (horrible law), but people who need to do posts related to escorting could use #[1]'s relay. And that's the whole point with Nostr - it's censorship-resistant, not censorship-proof. Nothing is censorship-proofā¦
Nice write-up. I really appreciate your leadership in this area. I think a lot of Bitcoiners are used to skirting KYC laws and think that Nostr can do the same when it comes to moderating content. Ignore the haters, I think many of them are just naive. Stories like the one #[1]ā gave in his Nostrica talk convert people quickly.
When it comes to responding to moderator reports I would love to see a really decentralized system like TrustNet be applied at the client level in addition to the necessary work at the relay level. After seeing so many Mastodon moderators burn out, and seeing how many people Big Social has working on moderation I think we need a paradigm shift if we really want to scale a decentralized social system. The Secure Scuttlebutt idea of using your peers as an immune system against bad content is revolutionary. Weāve brought Scuttlebuttās two-hops algorithm into Nos, but something like TrustNet takes it to the next level. https://cblgh.org/trustnet/
Ah wish I couldāve made it but I was busy tonight.
Also pour one out for #[0]ā. I nuked his follow list with a bug in Nos yesterday. He's out there taking the fall so ya'll don't have to š„²
Build 37 of Nos is out! This one has reposts and I finally feel like the performance is in an acceptable place. Curious to hear feedback anyone has on that. (there is a database cleanup script that will run the first time you launch this build, so give it a minute before you judge). Next week we'll be working on autocompletion of mentions and DMs!
Here's the full list of changes:
- Added support for reposting notes and viewing reposts.
- Added Brazilian Portuguese translations (thanks nostr:npub1gk6ufj53zcc07dt8vrnwwslr3zqs2z398808z9gaw0pl2znmacrqp5y8se!).
- Performance improvements
- Fixed the French and Traditional Chinese translations.
- Fixed a bug where the user's follow list could be erased on the first launch after importing a new key.
- Fixed a bug where you could post the same reply multiple times.
- Fixed an issue where profile pictures could be rendered with the wrong aspect ratio.
Yeah itās like the web just links data with other data. Nostr links data with people in an open way. So we can bring trust, reputation, and relationships to all the software you mentioned above. Very human and powerful.
Looks good in Nos! 
Maybe we can deploy this at DWeb camp this year. They are doing a whole day where they turn off the internet. It would be fun to still be able to use Nostr during that time.
I was playing with NeoPets and Geocities on the web in the 90s. Keeping up with the web standards, not so much. But I've heard about it from some old-timers š.
oof, maybe with consistent card width this time though.
This is pretty similar to the web in its early days I think.
It looks like someone just bridged his Mastodon account via mostr.pub.
Likes are the simplest social signal you can send. Our problem is that Big Social has bent social signals into algorithms optimized for engagement. The social signals themselves are not evil.
I think money is a worse proxy for value than simple signals like āapprovalā that humans have been using forever. Some people are poor and will be under-represented. Some people are rich and can send huge zaps. Iām not interested in the market value of peoples notes. Iām interested in learning from them, being entertained, keeping in touch with friends Iām not with.
Micropayments are great for many things. But letās not build all relationships on money. Trust is where itās at.
Itās been fine for me. The only negative effect Iāve noticed is that I couldnāt edit Wikipedia pages with it on.