I spent the weekend rethinking "NIP-69" that @rabble and I had proposed. Based on some of the comments we had gottten I started with the idea of "labeling" and made the data needed for #ContentModeration just another type of labeling data. That required coming up with a NIP for doing labeling. I made it so you can use _any_ coding system / defined vocabulary. Do you want to tag your posts (or someone else's) with some ISO code, or a GeoNames place ID, or some code from a structured vocabulary like MeSH? Or maybe you have your own defined vocabulary (like I do)… You can do that with what I'm calling "NIP-68". You can see it here…

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I'm hoping that NIP makes Nostr interesting to the scientific community. (It would be very funny if "the gay porn guy" kicked off the process of getting scientists onto Nostr.) Then… I reworked our NIP-69 proposal so it's just a defined vocabulary for NIP-68 labeling. Actually it's two defined vocabularies. One is somewhat rigid, the other is more organic - anyone can just create a new moderation-related code and start using it. You can see my new NIP-69 here…

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It does have an impact on how things are done now. It deprecates both NIP-36 and NIP-56 and requires paid relays to accept moderation reports from unpaid users if the content being reported is on the relay. (Without that change relay owners may never know they have illegal content on their relay). Client apps can keep their current "report post" UI (or enhance it with new features), but they will need to change the event that's sent from type 1984 to type 32123. The few apps that are using the reports to filter/block what their users see (like @Vitor Pamplona's Amethyst) may need to make more more substantial changes (but they may want to wait, since this isn't the end of the suggestions regarding content moderation). I'm still discussing with Rabble the best way to present 68 & the new 69 as Nostr PRs, but that will probably get done in the next day or two.

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My #[0]​ account just got its first pseudo death threat here on Nostr. #[1]​ #[2]​ #[3]​ #[4]​ #[5]​ Nostr needs to take content moderation seriously! “NIP-69” that #[6]​ & I proposed is the first step in that process. Let’s get it approved…

Some of the people who've seen what #[0] & I have been proposing in "NIP-69" seem to think the objective is censorship. So to day I sat down and wrote out the bigger "vision" of where I'd like to see content moderation go on Nostr. Feel free to give it a read: https://s3x.social/nostr-content-moderation Just realize it's a first draft and needs work. But the point I hope I get across is that I want to see something that's individual and "bottom up". To me censorship is always top down since at the core of censorship is some authority flexing their power and enforcing their idea of what's good and bad - overriding your idea of good and bad. Instead I want to see a cacophony of voices with individuals choosing which voices in that chaos they want to listen to for filtering their feeds. (Or they could choose to listen to none and see it all.) But systems have to be put in place to make that a reality. It won't happen by accident. And yes, the government will always force a certain level of censorship on us. But there are ways around that. For example our relay can't have anything related to escorting on it thanks to FOSTA/SESTA (horrible law), but people who need to do posts related to escorting could use #[1]'s relay. And that's the whole point with Nostr - it's censorship-resistant, not censorship-proof. Nothing is censorship-proof…

Today I posted on an adult webmaster board saying I have a different, more positive perspective on crypto thanks to Nostr. One of the OGs warned me about talking positively about crypto… Apparently there's a huge amount of animosity towards everything crypto in porn despite the fact that the porn industry pays ~10-12% in fees and lives under constant threat of Visa & Mastercard refusing to work with them at which point their business will completely fold… [Not to mention all the problems with banks - which are enormous.] Here's how the conversation went (edited to make it flow): Him: that sounds good, except 95% of consumers won’t use crypto Me: Nostr will change that. It was designed by Bitcoiners with the intention of “orange pilling” users (their term for “onboarding” them - getting them to use crypto in daily life). Him: so, bitcoin can be as low as it want’s if consumers don’t use it, it’s not a large solution.  in the “alternative billing” niche… Me: if you get a customer onto Nostr. They’ll soon have a crypto wallet, and then they can pay you in crypto with basically no fees. Him: that’s the barrier.  getting them into Nostr and seeing up a wallet.  huge bottleneck for volume. i think your best bet for development is focusing on nostr…  stay out of billing completely.  it’s a shark pit and will burn you alive. the sheer amount of vitriol of all the people that have tried alternative billing “solutions” that branded then is horrific and they will attack anyone coming in with pretty much anything , regardless how good it is.  Thin ice to tread Me: Let’s put it this way, the majority of people who sign up for Nostr will eventually enable Lightning payments because it enhances their experience of using Nostr. It’s then up to site owners to figure out if they want to take advantage of that new opportunity or not. Nothing is stopping them from continuing to do things the same way. Him: just giving you the heads up to the pitfalls in this realm.  Thar Be Dragons! I can think of at least 6 people on here that will eat you alive on this topic.  Me: I’m not forcing anyone to do anything. And BTW, Lightning payments weren’t even a thing before 2019. They are a new, streamlined, “off-chain” way of processing crypto. So people may have tried crypto payments, but they probably didn’t try Lightning payments. Him: just be careful. these OGs do shoot the messenger Me: It’s like trying Pernod and deciding you never want to drink alcohol ever again. I’ll be like “sure… you do you, but this Manhattan is delicious!” Him: The ones that will attack are [insert names here] and these guys are old school porn mob and don’t mince words Me: Oh, and don’t forget all the billing companies! Him: the billing companies will remain mute to see which way the wind blows inc are they thing there is an opportunity for them to add crypto to their offerings [a bit more discussion, then…] Him: Do as you like, but just giving you fair warning you are about to step on a landmine