smeef on nostr

Moderation design

I'm not a huge fan that individual users own substrs. You could do it like Mirage does it and just use hashtags instead of a whole thing to own and moderate. I feel like part of the point of nostr is community moderation. It doesn't make much sense to re-centralize control, in my opinion. What do y'all think?

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Freakoverse · 6w

By chance I saw this and coincidentaly that's exactly what I'll be doing =3 There'll be two systems, one that's known now by nostr devs (and will not impose a centralized list of who owns what 'name', that's just silly, everyoe will have a non-human-readable address as their subforum), so one can h...

LeadingSuspect · 6w

I do like the concept of theme centered communication. And I do like that not everybody can throw in his post, that he wrote first and then thought about. That's what i liked about reddit - you have a hobby and like minded people form a community. The downside was that moderators had too much power....

Substr · 5w

I get that concern, and honestly I think it depends on what layer you consider “centralized.” The actual posts, replies, reposts, zaps, etc. inside Substr are still regular Nostr events that live on relays and work outside the app. We intentionally avoided building some closed backend feed wher...