So this is an important question — right now everything posted in a NIP-172 community will show up in your profile feed too. I think there are pros and cons to this. Pros of showing community posts in profile feed: 1) Promotes discoverability of communities, i.e. there can be a link next to posts like "posted in n/such-and-such" 2) Helps "bootstrap" communities since other users don't have to specifically go to that community or even know that it exists to engage with content posted there. Cons of showing community posts in profile feed: 1) A user's profile feed may get filled up with notes from communities that are not particularly relevant to a wider audience 2) There may be certain posts that a user doesn't *want* to be easily discoverable by a wider audience This is the problem inherent in trying to combine the *breadth* of Twitter-like content with the *depth* of Reddit-like content. So what to do about it? One idea I had for a solution would be to allow users to mark communities as "visible" by adding an `a` tag to their kind 0 metadata event. That way Twitter-like clients could know to only display posts from these communities in the user's main feed. Thoughts? View quoted note →

Just an fyi to the person who created "n/cannabis", "n/weed", AND "n/420" 😂 . . . nostr communities are namespaced to the pubkey of the founder, which means there is no scarcity of names. It's not like reddit where the first person who registers a name is the only one who gets to use it! @🤷

Just deployed an update to list all the nostr communities that have been created over the last couple days.

Satellite

satellite.earth

Click the "Communities" tab. It looks super cool!

Resistance is a sign that the problem you're working on matters

So I have a totally different perspective on this. I do not believe that moderated communities on nostr are 'censorship'. On the contrary, I think that independently-governed spaces are (and will increasingly become) one of the most important tools we have in the fight *against* censorship. I will explain how I came to that conclusion, but first let me try to steelman what I think you're saying. Reddit has obviously been crippled by censorship. Like, it's is basically a psyop at this point. So I 100% agree with you that if nostr communities are implemented in the same way that reddit communities are implemented, nostr will, sooner or later, slide down the path of becoming censorious and irrelevant just like reddit. So why do I think sub-communities on nostr will *not* lead to censorship? It comes down to nostr's architecture. The fact is, all data on nostr is public and uncensorable by default because notes are signed and distributed redundantly across multiple relays. Therefore, on it's not possible for the mod of a nostr community to delete your post or ban you without everyone knowing. Unlike reddit, mod actions on nostr are 100% transparent, and mods are therefore accountable for the actions they take. Satellite's interface displays a *public modqueue* for every nostr community. Mods are replaceable because communities are forkable. I'm sure you'd agree that it's necessary to delete spam, right? If there isn't some mechanism in place to delete spam, every feed in every community would be 100% ads. Right now we're all relying on relays to fight the spam battle, but that won't work forever. This leads me back to my point about why I think communities on nostr are actually a way to prevent censorship. Censorship prevents communication. One way of preventing communication is by silencing people. Denying people the ability to speak. Signal *blocking*. What's less obvious is that another way to censor people is by signal *jamming*. They way you do that is by increasing the noise. Imagine trying to be heard in a room of a thousand people all shouting at the top of their lungs. It comes down to signal/noise ratio. Whether you reduce the signal or increase the noise, the result is the same. Nostr already does a relatively good job defending against signal blocking, but we're still vulnerable to signal jamming in the form of unmitigated spam and potentially even AI-powered psyops. My viewpoint is that communities (transparently curated and moderated by humans) are how we scale nostr while making it *more* censorship-resistant. I'm the developer of Satellite (I just pushed and update with these nostr communities yesterday). I want to avoid this being something that divides nostr. If you disagree with my reasoning I want to understand why. View quoted note →