i forgot who you were, update your profile with a name or something!
honestly i'm okay with this, default filtering by foaf is logical and organic
a periodic break from anime porn is nice.
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.
honestly i am okay with zaps but it will shape the network a certain way
social network software doesn't exist in a vacuum, it is used by and for human interaction. so thinking hard about what behavior the network protocol and software ecosystem encourages is also required.
Sorry for the confusion but I meant, if you took it one step further and automated that process (e.g. shared blocklists.) again if you block people it doesn't hurt the network no.
Cool (seriously), but automate that at your and the entire network's peril however.
nostr events are defined by a "kind" number. how do i make a new kind of event and how do i get a number for it? what would happen if parts of the network disagree?
Anime avatars are the Internet's indigenous people and discriminating against them is racism.
hmm this is a good point, they may already just feel embattled all the time. I will be considerate of this point of view in the future.
It's frustrating because I know that people will think I am coming at this from "of course his server gets blocked a lot so he doesn't like it" when it really is, I have perfectly non-offensive friends and acquaintances that have been just totally fucked by the irrational blocking shit on Fedi.
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.
I'm not going to keep harping on this (nobody seems to care anyway) but if I see a conversation about it with a developer I'm probably going to participate.
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.
you might object that anyone can add any relay to their bip05, well true but you're going to find out that the zealots who do this shit literally don't care about how accurate the data they're using is.
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,
spam and trolls can ruin people's experience too no doubt but don't take a cure that's worse than the poison.
Everything about a network isn't just the protocol and if it's technically uncensorable, people aren't here for that shit they are here to talk to other people. You can make choices at every level from the protocol to the relays to the clients that can make a huge impact on if people can use the network effectively or if it's going to turn into another balkanized unusable mess like the Fediverse.