I don't mind having moderation but it should not happen at the "ether" level as spam is not well defined generally. On r/Bitcoin, talking about block size was "spam" and I understand that many people see it that way but a considerable percentage of the users of Reddit did not and that produced a ton of friction.
I want relays to filter spam (the CSAM and stuff according to what they feel comfortable hosting) but the topic forum should not rely on only one such relay. For finer grain spam filtering like "talk about block size", users should have client side filters and those filters can leverage third party classification but if I want the firehose, let me have it.
The moderators at r/Bitcoin massively influenced discussion. You could maybe argue they fabricated consensus. I don't want a small group to have that kind of power again. Not on nostr.
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Well, either way can be done, it's pretty much up to the client AND your relay setup. Example, my client RelayTools-android, it connects to just one relay at a time. The topics feed and all feeds, are only being pulled from the selected relay. This is an efficient way to use nostr. In addition, I have a personal relay that streams in from 60+ relays, my lists and any other rules I want, assembling my view. So if I want it to pull certain topics only from certain relays, I can do that. If I want to pull them from my follows I can do that too. At all levels you get to pick, is my point.. A customizable and portable topic has no direct 'tie' to a specific relay. It is just kind11 events.