Rabble on Nostr: Nostr isn’t free for some of us until it’s free for all of us. And to do that we ...

Nostr isn’t free for some of us until it’s free for all of us. And to do that we need to build a space where people and communities of users can set and enforce community norms for themselves. If we don’t build these tools then we’ll not be able to make Nostr for everybody. Nobody’s saying you need to use moderation labels or relays that take down reported content. Just that for people who want them, they can use them. We need good tools for self management. Authoritarians take and hold power because they claim that they’re the only one to keep people safe. If we don’t build in tools on Nostr to help us keep ourselves safe, then people will think their only option is to use a system with opaque unaccountable centralized control over the platfrom.

That’s why I do the work on Tagr-bot (npub12m2…e68j) and other projects to provide tools for trust, safety, and moderation on a permissionless open protocol.

And if you don’t believe harassment happens, please listen to people like angela (npub19vv…t562) who helped organize the first Nostr conference in her experience:

quoting note10c9…drsv

This is the only place in my life that I’ve been called a N multiple times. Same re: one or two people sending a DM saying they’d rape me.

Or look at what was said to me today:

quoting note14vm…2jd4

Stop being a giant faggot, and people will treat you better.

Either we figure out a way to goven ourselves without centralized control or we’ll end up with that centralized control we’ve been fighting against.