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I have one question. Does Nostr involve a Blockchain?
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I think centralized moderation is the problem with social media servers. Users should be the ones to control their own moderation. See a post you don't like? Hide the post. Don't like any posts from a particular user? Block the user. It's not difficult to do and if users are really only following friends and famous accounts (celebrities, bots, news, etc.) they won't experience much spam anyway. I think the real issue…
You would think that at first glance, but it's short-sighted. Experiment: Turn off your email's spam filter for a month.
The same thing is not true for say, Twitter, where I only see posts from people I explicitly follow.
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You would think that at first glance, but it's short-sighted. Experiment: Turn off your email's spam filter for a month.
I can’t select whom emails me. I see everything that comes to me. The same thing is not true for say, Twitter, where I only see posts from people I explicitly follow.
If you are in control of your mail server you can block email addresses, even entire domains or IP spaces. I do not understand this statement.
If anyone is interested in trying out Nostr, I would recommend downloading Damus, the iOS client that’s currently available. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/damus/id1628663131 It’s not perfect, but it feels a lot like the Twitter iOS client, and gives you an idea of what Nostr can become.
A timeline of a single person (Damus) shouting into the void?
I saw this mentioned somewhere else the other day and checked it out. Seems immature to me, something about the lack of structure in their messages, the loose ties to the type enum that they have for messages, feels as if it is not thoroughly thought out.
It’s something we’re building in real time, as we use it. If you visit the NIPs repo, you will see it changing by the idea. As the clients and relays try things, ideas propagate quickly. In that sense it is extremely exciting.
So relays are not able to talk to one another and if I want to be able to interact with another user in any way, we have to be sharing a relay, right?
These seem like really strong limitations to me and I am having a hard time understanding why they exist. Why not start with some relay-to-relay capabilities as well like XMPP has?
I have one question. Does Nostr involve a Blockchain?
I don’t think so. Blockchain is an append-only log with consensus, and Nostr doesn’t need the consensus part because it’s not harmful if clients disagree about the state of the data. However, client data is signed with Nostr which is awesome, so you can easily tell whether something is legit. If a client or a relay misbehaves it’d be very easy to tell. I really love this architecture.
Only Gemini came close, but even though that was technically simpler it still wasn’t as intuitive as just saying ‘use JSON’.
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I can’t select whom emails me. I see everything that comes to me. The same thing is not true for say, Twitter, where I only see posts from people I explicitly follow.
> I can't select whom emails me. If you are in control of your mail server you can block email addresses, even entire domains or IP spaces. I do not understand this statement.
edit: Opt-in, not opt-out. Whitelist, not blacklist.
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I can’t select whom emails me. I see everything that comes to me. The same thing is not true for say, Twitter, where I only see posts from people I explicitly follow.
> I can't select whom emails me. If you are in control of your mail server you can block email addresses, even entire domains or IP spaces. I do not understand this statement.
Of course you can set your email server to reject every single email that you do not have in a whitelist, but that’s not a feature of the protocol. Plus it’s something you need to manually do (because most people don’t want -or expect that- from email).
People expect Twitter (or similar apps/protocols) to not show them messages other than from people that are explicitly followed.
The whole premise of Nostr is that you consider your access point hostile, yet its provider is still offering one. That contradiction just incentivizes bad and toxic actors to participate and dominate this network. That's why, it seems, the developers actively conflate what one would expect from a private communication platform and a social media platform. But this isn't an alternative to Mastodon or Twitter, it's an…
I think centralized moderation is the problem with social media servers. Users should be the ones to control their own moderation. See a post you don't like? Hide the post. Don't like any posts from a particular user? Block the user. It's not difficult to do and if users are really only following friends and famous accounts (celebrities, bots, news, etc.) they won't experience much spam anyway. I think the real issue…