Imagine if Reddit's onboarding was like nostr's
"Yeah you can join communities. You can even create your own community with your own rules โจ"
and the first thing they saw was /r/circlejerk and had to wade through that first before they could #growreddit
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Should we actually just create a new Reddit?
with blackjack... and hookers!
You know what? Forget Reddit


I mean.. of course.
Duh. Good luck ๐ฏ
First thing most people see on nostr is child pornography.
Because scammers and bots are allowed to spam hashtags with scams and csam
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It's a hard problem, and devs work toward solutions as they can. But again, it's a hard problem, so those solutions take time.
But in terms of scope - it's a global/macro/open system problem. Just like you don't care to access every website on the internet, you don't care to connect to every relay. You care for a select few, and generally trusted set of relays.
The sharpest answer to this problem that doesn't answer global scope is two sided. (1) Devs surface relays that are generally trustable (like a search engine aims to surface generally trustable websites), they can even offer - as I mentioned earlier - hard coded relays. (2) Users choose their relays, leave relays that don't meet the user's standards, associate with other users to advocate for good relays, warn for problematic content, warn for relays that don't manage themselves.
There are some ways to formalize this. Relay reviews, events that use a sort of "gossip propagation" passing information about trusted and malicious relays, but that's a collective action problem.
