dikaios1517 on Nostr: I prefer my Nostr client to try and weed out spam for me. That's a feature, not a ...
I prefer my Nostr client to try and weed out spam for me. That's a feature, not a bug.
What exactly counts as spam is always going to be somewhat subjective. I believe Vitor has been open about what he uses as criteria in Amethyst, and it seems a fair call to me.
I also think using what my own follows have reported as the criteria for hiding someone's posts is BRILLIANT! This means it is already based on the opinions of folks whose opinions I already likely value, or else I wouldn't be following them. It also keeps it from being determined by some central authority, since each user may have a very different set of npubs they are following. What is hidden for me is very likely visible for others using the exact same client, because we follow people with different opinions.
Moreover, it is key that these filters can be turned off entirely. The user remains in control of what they do and don't want to see.
Finally, NONE OF THAT constitutes a "social credit score." That would be if some central authority looked at everything a user posts and gave them a score based on the content of their posts, and then hid the posts of anyone who scored too low from all users. Nothing like that is happening in Amethyst or any web-of-trust relays.
What exactly counts as spam is always going to be somewhat subjective. I believe Vitor has been open about what he uses as criteria in Amethyst, and it seems a fair call to me.
I also think using what my own follows have reported as the criteria for hiding someone's posts is BRILLIANT! This means it is already based on the opinions of folks whose opinions I already likely value, or else I wouldn't be following them. It also keeps it from being determined by some central authority, since each user may have a very different set of npubs they are following. What is hidden for me is very likely visible for others using the exact same client, because we follow people with different opinions.
Moreover, it is key that these filters can be turned off entirely. The user remains in control of what they do and don't want to see.
Finally, NONE OF THAT constitutes a "social credit score." That would be if some central authority looked at everything a user posts and gave them a score based on the content of their posts, and then hid the posts of anyone who scored too low from all users. Nothing like that is happening in Amethyst or any web-of-trust relays.