Give communities the capabilities to build walls around themselves. Censorship isnt the problem, its obligated censorship from individuals who aren't aligned with my values.
- i don't care what you see, i care what i see and i want to curate my feed
- i want to curate a communtiy that isnt centered around hashtags. I want it on nostr because i dont want to be a walled garden, but i want only specific things on my relay/group.
Let relays be some proxy for a definition of a community. The relays you belong to are your public pool - don't shit in it, don't let anyone else shit in it and uphold the same standards to everyone else in that community. Anyone who absolutely needs that functionality can have their own relays to do whatever they want.
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Because nostr has no hashtags it gets excessively hard to find specific post. You could build a community perhaps even around a hashtags that a line with your values. Don't can work to your benefit.
I wish more relays had more definition to them, as well. I actually think Nostr might move that way.
I'm condfident that the hate and harasment can be solved through better community and feed curation.
WOT - great even if computationally expensive for personal curation from a set of relays (low level)
relay mods - the judge with the hammer on who can or can't be in your park. (high level)
these are already great tools to help curate feeds. Right now, everyone on nostr is a community of enthusiasts, but its not super cohesive in ideals.
Smaller communities with tools for moderation (high and low level, cross level communication) will be the best defence for toxicity.
Take the reddit model of community - even your own relays are an approximation for a community. Take care of it and keep bad actors out, do it for all the communities you intersect with, even if you arent a leader.
That + WOT + relay moderation + user<->mod communications is how we find our niches and our communities on nostr.
Everyone will find the right community for them, even those we see as the most toxic.
Community development.
Unless you are speaking specificially about changes to nostr itself as a protocol, you don't need to worry or fight against censorship because it it built in. Reddit is a great community model, i think that nostr can have shades of gray when it comes to community participation which is more fine grained from what Reddit allows.
Walls help bring evolution because communities develop in safety and isolation from external influences - you don't need to look further than your backpyard to understand how niches enable specialization and flourishing.
Being on nostr, all this is opt in. Is a community/relay to strict/lenient for your liking? Go somewhere else. We don't need to be completely mixed in, and socially that's actually a way to really stirr up internal conflict - throw in individuals completely unaligned with the core ideals of a communtity to co-opt and break it apart from the inside.
