Muting so you don't have to see the reply already exists. What is being discussed here is the ability to make it so nobody else can see the reply either.

You don't have to use those clients or those relays. That's the entire point of Nostr. I'd like to see a client that censors and bans and essentially acts like Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, you know the standard stuff of legacy social media, just to show that nostr is censorship resistant and that you don't have to use clients that perform these types of actions.

That's fine in the sense you describe it but I think what a lot of people here, myself included, are very resistant to as this is being discussed is a general policy creep where all the major public relays and up that way, turning the nostr experience into the sterilized corporate social media that we left in coming here. It's illogical to come to some place uniquely different and then push to eliminate the very things that make it unique. It looks to me very similar to how California liberals will move to a red state because it's better and then start trying to make that place change into the shit hole they just left. Here I can go toe to toe with a CEO or politician and they can mute me but everyone else can read my challenge to what they said. There's value in that. If I can be silenced such that nobody can read my words then there's no longer any value in being here.

I just think we need all sorts of clients. Ones that are wide open. Ones that give users a wide variety of control. Ones that filter, whatever you want to call it. Show the full demonstration of the protocol and give users the ultimate choice to what type of experience they would like to have. The more choices we have, the better.

That would probably be client dependent in this type of scenario. But again, that's fine because it demonstrates the openness of the protocol where any client can do whatever they want to do. I think it all comes back to having a wide plethora and wide variety of user choice. Why should what I say or what you say dictate what another user does or how I use another application or how the developer should build the application. I'm all for ultimate user choice and ultimate developer choice. Again, we should have a wide variety of literally everything. Don't get confused by my ramblings or have them be viewed incorrectly. I don't want censorship. I hate censorship but I think some people do and I think some developers do. So, if those clients existed then we will be able to showcase the versatility of Nostr. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Thanks brother.

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