The reason I added prominent users is that most users will follow prominent Devs or other sorts of users which are recommended, there is also some cases where a client will automatically have a new user follow people from the start. If these prominent users had the same political opinion and didn't want to see the content of an opposing political opinion (or personal opinion of whatever eg) they are making a blocklist/shadowban, whether intentionally or not. And as a user you might agree with this actually. But it is quite difficult to undo or even notice, especially as a casaula user, even moreso when you are not even aware this is happening, and in fact nostr is sort of touted as not doing this. How is this different from the vibecheck we were lampooning BlueSky about? Sorry, I think I am more pondering now lol

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Maybe it is a glitch in either the spamfikter or the reported user function, I don't know... But I have had to unblock people by following them. In one case I only noticed cos I have the pingstr thing set up which alerts me of DMs via a telegram message, and they happened to message me. There was no big red button, no indication at all. There's been a handful of people I've seen to date, and it's just people noticing and alerting. For example plebstr was showing me these user replies whilst amethyst was not. There was also no 'show anyway' option or anything. Which makes me wonder if amethyst is doing something different (?)