No I think you misunderstood the requirement. A client-selected moderation option isn’t sufficient, nor is a client-software-specific one. A repo forge is our place of work. People will (and have) taken the fact that allow anyone to comment as a free pass to harass people, throw baseless accusations, and generally be disruptive. They can of course go do that on social media but we can’t have our place of work disrupted by people using it as a bulletin board to shit on us. Having the ability to hide it for ourselves doesn’t suffice - when anyone else looks at our work and sees a stream of “pedos!” and “compromised!” conspiracy theory nonsense that makes it our problem. A nostr-based solution where every client hides crap that we removed would be fine, but I assume it’s quite likely clients would be built that would ignore such moderation and we’d be back to square one.
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You are corrupted and compromised piece of shit and that is visible from Jupiter.
The good news is that the compromised Core is getting obsolete.
Anyone implementing the same set of rules ie the subset of the nostr protocol most agree on will see the same events and the rules can be enforced server side optionally as well.
What I struggle to understand:
1. If you have your own self hosted relays and git servers where you can enforce rules to the extent you want how is that different moderation from Forgejo
2. If I fork and mirror your forgejo instance and maintain a bridge, then develop a client that views both sources, how is that different from what you describe as the issue with nostr?
Forgejo is open source so anyone can build this easily today. You're not bothered by that?
Nostr gives you signatures from sovereign IDs and standard data modeling, so it's more neutral.
Everything else I see comes down product specifics.
web of trust would be perfect for this. everyone would have their own trusted circles and everyone outside would get hidden but not banned
Please help me understand:
If you host your stuff on some relay you control and moderate, then you use a client that only reads comments from that relay that you control and moderate, then you tell everybody to use that client and you link to your page on that client such that anyone using that client will never see anything outside your control, is that enough?
Now if some other client shows up with 2 users and that client chooses to read comments from the harassment-maximalists relay, does that make it a deal-breaker for you?
the fact that others can have conversations that are visible to others if they so choose....brings you back to square one?
