Context: you explained how your app half blocks an npub on behalf of everyone with a mixed follow list if they are blocked by as many individuals as an "annoying person" (not a spammer or anything, mind you)
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Only for those people that follow everyone that reported you.
You show up just fine for everybody else, expect if they privately blocked or muted you, or words you frequently use, or use relays that the operator decided to block you too.
"I dont want to see what others muted"... Not quite. Mutes are reports are different things. People can mute a lot of folks and that won't have any effect on your experience.
Reports are the more violent version of mutes, that affects lots of different parts of nostr. For instance, many relays use reports to delete content they do not want in their server. Reports are made for other people. Mutes/Blocks just for yourself.
Each user controls the reports they want to see or pay attention to. I have 1000s of reports against me, a different number in every relay, and everybody still see my content because those reports were made by angry folks that people decided are not worth following.
Remember, it must be 5+ users from the list that each person is following.
So, something for me can appear but for you don't. It depends on what our follows reported.
So, if you get 1000s of reports from idiots that nobody follows or just their gangs follow, you still show up for everybody, expect for them and their gangs.
I can see the grooming too. There are also human trafficking, child porn, financial scams of all sorts mostly via impersonators, etc. there is some pretty hideous stuff around here that we try to offer tools to help users protect themselves from.
It's unfortunate that with brand new tools there are those who willuse them for nefarious purposes. The protocol is neutral but the users define how it is viewed by the public.