Freedom ends where you start imposing costs on others. The pro-mask & pro-jab people want to impose known & immediate costs (ignoring long term consequences) on others in order to avoid any risk of some possible imagined cost. There is no way to sanely police sick people being in public, or conducting themselves in a specific way in public, so you can't fucking do it.

Would I like for people to cover their mouths when they cough? Yeah I guess. I certainly don't want people coughing on me directly, but I don't think anyone should ever be forced to wear a mask & the real world data literally shows that it accomplishes nothing anyway.

Freedom of association means that you are free to remove yourself from social situations that make you uncomfortable at your own expense.

If we stick to principles then society keeps working, if we use "emergencies" to justify any arbitrary bullshit that makes people feel better then everything devolves into tyranny.

If you use that logic then everyone becomes guilty until proven innocent. People sometimes cough & sneeze withoht actually being sick, if every random thing is treated like an illness then people can't comfortably go about their lives in public spaces. No one should have to be surrounded by a bunch of cowards that suddenly hate them because they simply had to cough.

Your fear is your burden. People already don't naturally want to go out when they are sick.

I don't think anyone goes out of their way to travel or be out around people when they are sick without good reason.

The only thing I am concerned with is what are you going to do about it? Being quietly pissed off is your own personal issue, sit & stew if that is what you want to do. But being mad at people for something that I am sure they didn't do on purpose seems pretty fucking self centered.

Mandatory nip05 to talk is needed

you could do that to raise the cost of an account. You could also have make relays that require vouching. has anyone made a NIP for vouching for another user? Other than just looking at who you follow.

Ditto is the only relay with built-in protection measures.

Stirfry has nothing built-in and you have to manually add the filters.

Relay admins are not being proactive in fighting it

We need better Relay tools. Spammers invading Nostr is not new as well as CSAM posters. Admins are lazy with CSAM too

replyguy? replyguy. Bait the replyguy.

Does CloudFlare provide any benefit to a websocket? Why is everyone sticking their relay behind CloudFlare?

Why is this decentralized app so much faster than twitter/x?