Post B3dM5GsXAV89PzfDbk by 7672c39dd8ac61f16a52f81578bfebdb5f8c70bc5a7277656ab5ba67bb590f58@mostr.pub
(DIR) More posts by 7672c39dd8ac61f16a52f81578bfebdb5f8c70bc5a7277656ab5ba67bb590f58@mostr.pub
(DIR) Post #B3dM5DoAaGrBtabBtA by ecbff9758417655ad8ba123d9e08d60d767045da22472ede86cfea8e9a2cd17c@mostr.pub
2026-02-23T23:29:27.000Z
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TIL: One can be shadowbanned on Nostr. Sad.
(DIR) Post #B3dM5FQUZH6aujXJGC by aa4ed3e0e2c80e52b76e2536bef7990a3f916044dbb4d9165bb3bd5395b56253@mostr.pub
2026-02-24T00:00:07.000Z
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who holds the shadowy ban hammer on nostr? i've noticed those who get banned on trad social have "i'm banned everywhere" glasses on.
(DIR) Post #B3dM5GsXAV89PzfDbk by 7672c39dd8ac61f16a52f81578bfebdb5f8c70bc5a7277656ab5ba67bb590f58@mostr.pub
2026-02-24T00:05:38.000Z
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under Web of Trust, the people you follow are the main signal by which your client filters. So if you follow people who have muted me, you are going to end up not seeing my posts in some context. This carries over to extra layers in some implementations, which means not only the people you follow can influence the censorship algorithm, but the people that your followers follow as well.While Web of Trust was a good idea, unfortunately there are already people abusing it for censorship purposes. The designers of WoT imagined that people would be using it to report spam. But the reality is that there are now popular accounts running around muting people for political reasons, in hopes that nobody will see their posts.
(DIR) Post #B3dM5I62dlWtCAzWIi by 9f3c722e281b81e9342f5b854d0fbfae45a828c628965d1242384e540d9b1729@mostr.pub
2026-02-24T01:14:35.000Z
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It seems even on Nostr the tentacles of censorship can fester at different levels, especially at client level I assume.What's the solution, besides turning WoT off and not using aggressive clients?
(DIR) Post #B3dM5JEEQnfuhrpZho by 7672c39dd8ac61f16a52f81578bfebdb5f8c70bc5a7277656ab5ba67bb590f58@mostr.pub
2026-02-24T01:21:31.000Z
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Firstly, I think WoT is a good start, but there needs to be an escape hatch to prevent misuse by well funded state actors. There needs to be an authoritative list of people that *are not spammers*. Some kind of free speech authority that can provide a list of people who have been targeted by people who maliciously manipulate Web of Trust. The same authority should also provide a list of npubs and NIP-05 handles which have been shown to block people who are not spam. So as to not remove the ability of Web of Trust to prevent abuse, but also to make sure that both those targeted by WoT abuse are not subject to malicious censorship, and those doing the targeting are simply no longer considered valid sources of WoT weights.
(DIR) Post #B3dM5K8b3ElHWgCaYq by dae0aff870620203370785a25cd1e90cd6e787d9eec0708636cda97d5bc0cec4@mostr.pub
2026-02-24T01:23:29.000Z
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Won't that "free speech authority" be immediately targeted for coption?
(DIR) Post #B3dM5KpUTl4ZfiGqQ4 by 7672c39dd8ac61f16a52f81578bfebdb5f8c70bc5a7277656ab5ba67bb590f58@mostr.pub
2026-02-24T01:26:11.000Z
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no. Look at the powers I just delegated to it. They only get two powers:1) to remove censorship by designating a legitimate person engaged in good faith posting as not a spammer and asking subscribing clients to disregard posts against them when determining WoT weights2) to remove the capability for singular accounts to mark others as spammers, and asking subscribing clients to disregard their graph data when determining WoT actions. They are not allowed to censor. They do not have the ability to censor anyone. There is still not centralized authority that can call someone spam. They can only stop someone from being labeled a spammer maliciously. It’s a reverse RBL.
(DIR) Post #B3dM5Lj98pamSKJIAa by dae0aff870620203370785a25cd1e90cd6e787d9eec0708636cda97d5bc0cec4@mostr.pub
2026-02-24T01:31:59.000Z
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Not useful for censorship directly, you're right, but potentially quite useful for advantaging malicious favoured accounts, and for burying disfavoured accounts under a "slide" of autogenerated/spam content.But I suppose if we had multiple "free speech authorities" setup as DVMs clients could query, this could still be a net plus...
(DIR) Post #B3dM5MevfzoTLXLREe by 7672c39dd8ac61f16a52f81578bfebdb5f8c70bc5a7277656ab5ba67bb590f58@mostr.pub
2026-02-24T02:01:43.000Z
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Well, as it stands, it is impossible to monitor and weigh in on every muting and abuse report on Nostr. But it is much easier to monitor the behavior of a guy running the “these are real posters” whitelist. Because spam is just incredibly easy to identify. If you’ve ever installed SpamAssassin on an email server, you know that Bayesian filters work pretty well and you basically never get spam again. I also think there are going to be very few people getting malicious subject to false reports, and it mostly involves politically sensitive subjects and controversial speakers. So it is a very easy job to analyze the whitelist and verify that accounts aren’t spam. Because they have posts like mine — human looking full paragraph posts that are not repetive and don’t contain an excess of links or financial tickers. We know spam when we see it. And if one of the authorities is whitelisting spam, I think that can be identified very quickly and they can have their authority revoked.
(DIR) Post #B3hFGuihSPJF7fVZdA by 465eb13404d7219cd91c2b4a8a7e308ad4e09bc1298dc08c5eec852e9bf5da09@mostr.pub
2026-02-23T23:28:55.000Z
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Only on specific clients.
(DIR) Post #B3hFGvv8zcrEqYL1fM by ecbff9758417655ad8ba123d9e08d60d767045da22472ede86cfea8e9a2cd17c@mostr.pub
2026-02-23T23:38:32.000Z
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I don’t use any specific clients - I use almost everything that can be used via Tor browser
(DIR) Post #B3hFGwo5hKoHay2uJM by 7672c39dd8ac61f16a52f81578bfebdb5f8c70bc5a7277656ab5ba67bb590f58@mostr.pub
2026-02-23T23:36:29.000Z
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Look in the various clients you’re using. Some of them will allow you to disable WoT.
(DIR) Post #B3hFGxylL8wNEM2waG by ecbff9758417655ad8ba123d9e08d60d767045da22472ede86cfea8e9a2cd17c@mostr.pub
2026-02-25T23:26:20.000Z
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just set 'See content from everyone' in nostrudel, hope that gets around your shadowban :)check it out: I found your old #2600 buddy https://xcancel.com/freQniKs/status/2026586828657070347turns out we have common friends... small world ))
(DIR) Post #B3hGBVcfROTDn6fnto by dae0aff870620203370785a25cd1e90cd6e787d9eec0708636cda97d5bc0cec4@mostr.pub
2026-02-24T02:27:33.000Z
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Yes, that is how I verify accounts before following.I'm very wary of delegating authority to any individual or well-defined group, even just white-listing. I think people would be more tolerant of spam-whitelisting authorities than you think - "yeah he allows TON spam, but at least he never approves Flat Earthers" etc etc. That way lies madness and #fediverse...
(DIR) Post #B3mq2Sk7LZ50ORwXjs by 5e60b49b811061e2b2479e22075d6360e45c20884f04b85e27f4040b9a37ce5f@mostr.pub
2026-02-28T17:11:58.000Z
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Disable Web of Trust shit. https://image.nostr.build/dfd8c0bb0a2f3fd3972a039e51ef25f0f57e3c09e86debfa79b4db532e65a676.jpgMoreover, Nostr is not about the “number of subscribers,” but about quality. I follow your npub, and there is no one in this world who can forbid me from doing so.