Yea moderation becomes a big problem once you can't actually block people. I don't like that Nostr describes itself as censorship resistent or even censorship free, that's not a good quality.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

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I'm not very familiar with Nostr, but knowing other distributed protocols, you can just hide messages from selected users in client.

censorship resistent or even censorship free, that's not a good quality.

Also, wtf did I read?

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Censorship-free implies that moderation is impossible. If you don't have moderation, your social media will turn into a Nazi bar.

you can just hide messages from selected users in client

That's not good enough. First of all, users don't want to have to block people before having a good experience. Users don't want to deal with moderation themselves, but they also don't want mean people, harassment and nazis. It's not easy to recruit moderators for online forums, not a lot of people want to deal with that stuff.

But secondly, client-level blocking is not effective. It does not stop those bad users from continuing their bad behavior. In the case of Lemmy, it also doesn't stop their votes from still affecting your feed.

So yes, censorship-free platforms are not good because censorship-free means moderation-free, and users don't want that.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

First of all, users don't want to have to block people before having a good experience.

In general conversation in distributed protocols is opt-in, not opt-out. If you see something you don't like in Briar/Tox/Jami, then it is only because you actively seek it.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 2 weeks ago

Okay, but that is not how the fediverse/Lemmy works at all and I don't think Nostr works that way either. You can easily see content that you did not explicity ask for (i.e. comments/posts from any user) and I don't think Nostr is different in this aspect (though I could be wrong).

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