How exactly do Nostr communities work? From the looks of it, if I create a community, I (or people I set as mods) would need to manually approve every single post.
Is there an alternative - be it automatically allowing posts, using WoT, pre-approving people, or some third party bot that auto approves some/all posts?
Or am I just misunderstanding how the modlog works in communities?
#asknostr
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Currently, the only true way to make groups is to run a relay.
I'm not sure how that's any different than just running your own website. 🤷🏻♂️
Whitelist npubs
If that is true, that is rather disappointing.
Nostr communities for the mostly-relay-ignorant should be a thing.
The correct answer is "What communities are you talking about?"
You're probably referring to NIP-72. The only client is Chorus for the new specification, with commenting using NIP-22. This is probably how many blogs work.
nip-29 or browse a relay jumble or in yakihonne.
Thanks, yeah I'm referring to NIP 72. Amythest supports it too, but by default both Amythest and Chorus only show annually approved posts by admins/mods AFAIK. I'm more curious is there's a way around needing to manually approve things, since that sounds like a pretty big commitment to micromanage a community like that.
How would I do that? There doesn't seem to be a way in most clients, and I just tried that on Chorus which adds a user as a member, but doesn't actually approve their posts automatically. It shows up as approved in Chorus but all other clients list posts from Chorus members in the mod queue.
chorus probably hasn't been updated in a while
Thanks for the share, though I was curious about trying to auto approve posts on community groups rather than on relays.
Can you solve it?
No, unfortunately what I can tell manually approving things is pretty much baked into the NIP. Though could be missing something.
Ask a skilled developer for this feature. Nostr is still in its early stages.
