I'm trying to wrap my head around the current nasty reply spam problem:
User becomes target > they & others mute & report attacker > new users join > targeted npub welcomes new users > attacker responds to targeted npub's welcome notes > new users see the attack replies > established users do not.
The only immediate stopgap I see, is for targeted users to _not_ welcome new people.
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I'm sure some capable programmers are seeing this problem happen, too. I don't doubt that something great, or many things, will come out of that hackathon.
But right now, how can we get new users to immediately understand the importance of mutes & reports? Or do we simply not set them up for disaster, so they at least have a chance to find the report button?
the report button does nothing, it's like the traffic button, except in some clients
🤣🫂 that's a defeatist's statement. I've received at least 1 report to one of my relaytools instances. Just because most things don't respect reports doesn't mean we should discount that some things do respect them.
I mean, even if it is nothing but a mislabeled mute button, people still need to figure out where it is & maybe ease in to how important it is, in a user-controlled environment.
Maybe we need an onboarding client that's like a first-player war game 🤣
"Welcome soldier. Here are your mute and follow buttons. Your mission: create your own utopia. Godspeed."
that's not what Daniel is doing with mutable, creating a climate of "hatred" and revenge
I haven't tried it or even looked at it, but I've seen some talk. I've nostr'd for almost 3 years without much of a mute list. I tried years ago, when reply bots were rampant, but when the idea of mute lists shared by gender was first being discussed, I deleted mine. I didn't realize at the time that it was a private list, but it was all dead bots anyway😅 ...and I don't care if I get muted. I've checked with hitchhikersguidetothemetaverse before, but ultimately, its not my decision to make, if someone thinks I'm annoying or hates me or whatever. There are people who I would miss, if they stopped talking to me but that's just life. Those things happen with or without a button.
I started a list again recently because of Brainstorm. I want to see what effect it has on a perspective different than my own. I'm still trying to keep it as small as possible, only muting things that go beyond typical public behavior. I'm thinking, with the current nasty replies and all the other people in the graperank who will also be muting this stuff, I might notice results soon.
