The most-needed tags I know of off the top of my head, for a nostr tagging system. What others are needed? #asknostr Tags people would tag by hand: * Verified human For npubs you have met face to face. Timestamped at time of verification. Used as a whitelist to filter bots. * Trusted tagger For npubs you trust not to abuse the tagging system. Could implement as a 0-100 score, or a priority list, instead of binary (this would also work for some other tags). * Do not trust tagger For npubs you've seen egregiously abusing the tagging system. * Trusted truster For npubs you trust to select other good npubs to trust. * Promotes scam(s) For posts or npubs that promote scams. * Clear future prediction For a post like "1 Bitcoin will be x USD on y date." * Unclear/unresolvable/implied future prediction For a post like "I think Bitcoin is done going down, but it can always surprise me." * Correct prediction Self-explanatory. * Incorrect prediction Self-explanatory. * Unclear/unresolved past prediction The timeframe has passed, but the prediction or outcome was too unclear to make a verdict. * Humanoid spam For people injecting topics everywhere, but not literally botspamming. A perfect example is me constantly talking about the need for a tagging system on nostr. * Ad spam Self-explanatory. * Flood spam Posts where the goal is just to attack a space (like a hashtag or reply section) and "clog" it. * Gaslighting Posts where the author attempts gaslighting. * Discussion abandonment Posts with replies the author has ignored, without good reason. Automatic tags, clients would add systematically: * Npub has a lighting address * Npub's number of human verification tags from trusted taggers and their trusted taggers * Npub's number of scam promotions, according to trusted taggers and their trusted taggers * Npub's numbers of each type of prediction tag, according to trusted taggers and their trusted taggers * Npub is a humanoid spammer, according to [other npub, prioritizing closest in web of trust] * Npub is an ad spammer, according to [other npub, prioritizing closest in web of trust] * Npub is a flood spammer, according to [other npub, prioritizing closest in web of trust] * Npub was accused of gaslighting by [other npub, prioritizing closest in web of trust] * Npub's number of discussions abandoned, according to trusted taggers and their trusted taggers

@Jumble (and other clients) would rather fuck up nostr with shit like "event kind 34236" instead of adding missing essentials View quoted note →

When a nostr client adds support for a pointless new "event kind" that should just be kind 1, it shows the dev is either gullible or a piece of shit. It's like how they all include "lightning" functionality without even warning users about the harm to Bitcoin's value. Take @Jumble supporting Divine's "kind 34236" for example. There's zero reason for that to exist, as opposed to just adding a "divine" tag on kind 1 events. But the Jumble devs don't care about censorship resistance, they want to be part of a "special club" of people that control other people's user experience, so they support added complexity to confuse users, and make it more complicated for anyone else to try to develop better nostr clients. None of this is surprising, of course. As I mentioned, it's just a continuation of the Lightning thing. The glowing is obvious as fuck, that's why these people are called "glowies."

Almost everyone just keeps doing the same actions they complain about the consequences of

Believing corporations shouldn't be allowed to blatantly steal from people makes me a commie

Robinhood Social uses a whitelist instead of a blacklist of guesses to filter bots, which is obviously better, but it's still centralized and relies on KYC. Not quite the same as my human-tag web-of-trust idea.

So fucking tired of being slowly murdered by the authorities and their supporters in this fucking suicide cult society.

We still need a tag-based filter system with tags like "verified human," encoded with a binary scheme instead of the actual English words (since language is regional). And with PoW as a backup. Every day that goes by with nobody developing this, more kids probably die as a result. I don't see any path to defeating the Nazis without it.

If I found 100 people that pay serious attention to my posts by now, the Israelis wouldn't be in the position they're in. If I found 1000 people that pay serious attention to my posts by a year ago, we'd have victories everywhere from preventing the coldcard hacks to making sure the Israelis are completely fucked. I don't know what exact number of people it will take for things to start turning around, but right now I'm at basically 0 other than myself, so obviously things are just going to keep getting worse and the Israelis will keep winning as long as it's like this.

I'm not the only one that complains about what the Nazis are doing to Gaza and the rest of the planet, but nobody else actually fights back like me. Everyone is like "look how fucked this is, we have to do something about it, let's not though, it's fine."

The authorities are risking global extinction with their combo of superweapon arsenals and climate change. They still have the supporters that give them authority and help them carry out their plans. In the small percentage of social media that is nostr, in the small percentage of nostr that isn't bots, we have some number of npubs trying to steer the world away from disaster.