trey on Nostr: There is wishful thinking, and there is reality. Reality is, what Will is saying is ...

There is wishful thinking, and there is reality.

Reality is, what Will is saying is totally reasonable for an actually useable, functioning system. It’s not SHOULD these decisions be made (yes they should) it’s HOW.

quoting note1m40…g7wy

Im ok with centralized banning of spammers on public relays. Hopefully this is the censorship we can all get behind. That and banning cp on media hosts.

I’m ok with coordinated engineering efforts to censor specific things while keeping the network censorship resistant for legitimate activity. Bitcoin is censorship resistant but still “censors” certain types of spam at the p2p layer so everyone can actually use the system for its intended purpose.

Bitcoin is even more extreme, these censorship rules (standardness rules) are centralized and decided by a few people. I’m not even suggesting that, i’m just suggesting a reputation based approach that relays can tap into or not.

Spam does not deserve the same censorship resistance properties as legitimate activity. note1czy…r2l2