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I don't know Nostr, but why can't you moderate anonymous forums? HN is anonymous. Or is Nostr literally non-censorable, in that I can't get an undesireable mess

• acdha 3y ago
  Moderation is expensive, scaling with popularity and some really nasty points where you become popular enough to attract spammers, criminal activity, and mobs. HN survives because it doesn’t allow you to upload files, the 90s aesthetic keeps it a niche, and–most importantly–it’s the pet project of a very rich guy who is comfortable paying skilled people decent money to moderate it: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th... Despite that, usernames and their corresponding IPs get blocked routinely and we still see spam regularly even if only for a brief time. Any forum will have the same problem: get popular and whacking spammers becomes a full-time grind. Allow people to upload files and you’ll have the FBI asking why you’re facilitating transfer of pirated movies, CSAM, etc. Have the wrong people decide to use private messages and now the FBI is back asking if you knew they were planning terrorist attacks. None of those are completely impossible, of course, but they end up being expensive and burning out volunteers. Limiting anonymity helps, but only so much - it’s just an expensive space to be in.