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Anthony Accioly
1w ago
Manosphere, homophobic content, spam bots, hardline, batshit crazy MAGA conservative stuff (pro-authoritarianism, anti-immigration, sometimes plain racist stuff), etc. I’m not giving Nostr a pass here, as this is a very real problem that we shouldn’t be sweeping under the rug.
To be fair I think that the problem will eventually fix itself as some of the worst Nostr content will likely be written by people that are more than willing to voluntarily lock themselves behind auth only relays or at least enforce NIP-05 identities from specific domains (the same happened with Gab, Truth Social). But for now, Nostr isn’t really attractive to, say, European left-leaning friends who may be LGBT, immigrants, or married to foreigners, and who may also happen to have written the book on much of the tech I’m passionate about.
In the same way that a lot of people on Nostr won’t touch Mastodon because of "all the commies policing my content and circle-jerking their political agendas" (which, for a lot of folks here on Nostr, can also be considered toxic content).
I wish it were different, but humans will be humans. And I’m okay running infrastructure for two different social networks if it means I can attract more people from all backgrounds and beliefs to at least give it a try. Every person who joins a free, decentralised network is a win on my book.
To be fair I think that the problem will eventually fix itself as some of the worst Nostr content will likely be written by people that are more than willing to voluntarily lock themselves behind auth only relays or at least enforce NIP-05 identities from specific domains (the same happened with Gab, Truth Social). But for now, Nostr isn’t really attractive to, say, European left-leaning friends who may be LGBT, immigrants, or married to foreigners, and who may also happen to have written the book on much of the tech I’m passionate about.
In the same way that a lot of people on Nostr won’t touch Mastodon because of "all the commies policing my content and circle-jerking their political agendas" (which, for a lot of folks here on Nostr, can also be considered toxic content).
I wish it were different, but humans will be humans. And I’m okay running infrastructure for two different social networks if it means I can attract more people from all backgrounds and beliefs to at least give it a try. Every person who joins a free, decentralised network is a win on my book.
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