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> I'm not sure a social media without censorship is viable on large scale Right, it absolutely isn't. Some form of censorship is vital. This claim becomes more

• rglullis 3y ago
  Nostr's idea of "moderation/censorship" is quite simple: you (or your relay admin) can drop whatever content you don't want to see or promote. It's no different than email servers, and (as a system) it works just fine even if you are surrounded by bad actors.
  • kmeisthax 3y ago
    Wait, this is just ActivityPub with extra steps. Why not just use Mastodon?
    • sharperguy 3y ago
      The main difference with Mastadon is tha with Mastadon you have a single node that you get your federated feed from, and that verifies your identity. Therefore if your node operator doesn't peer with some other node, you wouldn't automatically be able to communicate with users on that node. With nostr, your identity is just a pubkey, and you can publish to / read from several nodes simultaneously. So if some node refuses to puplish certain content, you can just get it from another node without having to create a whole new identity.
• bshacklett 3y ago
  This take is terrifying to me. Obviously we all have things that we don’t want to be exposed to, and probably many things that we don’t feel anyone should be exposed to, but who gets to make the decision of what is acceptable and what isn’t? Bias and financial interests in speech and content are more rampant, now, than they have ever been. I don’t trust anyone but myself to “save” me from seeing what I can only describe as “wrongthink”.