half/byteGetting some reports about #mostr accounts that seem to just spew word soup, maybe to spam hashtags and links but after reading through a few profiles, I'm unsure what the deal there is. Am I right in assuming that nostr is by design more or less unmoderateable? Is that reason enough to block the bridge? #FediAdmin
M. Verdone@halfbyte by mostr I assume you mean nostr? It's definitely a freedom of speech ("freeze peach") haven, with some weird cryptocurrency stuff involved, too. I guess you can't trust the owner of the bridge to block anything.
Ji Fu@halfbyte nostr is a protocol just like ActivityPub is. Neither protocol in and of itself is moderated, but supports the ability to be moderate. ActivityPub does it via instances, and sometimes is baked right into the soup. (I recall at one time Lemmy automatically blocked any posts that contained reactionary language unless the admin edited the source code and re-compiled it themselves). Similarly NOSTR relays chose how to handle the reports much the same way AP servers set their own standards.
if I understand correctly it goes to whichever relays mostr.pub is connected to, and its up to each relay how to handle it. Some tag you as a whinny little bitch, others take that note out immediately, others ignore, and I think some actually have a dude look at its content and make decisions to remove the nevent or actually block the npub /2
Same as if you were using a NOSTR "account" yourself, except you don't have control over which relays your account connects to as natives do, by specifically connecting, or specifically blocking in your client. only, which i think is determined by which nostr users connect their client to wss://realy.mostr.pub and which other relays those same users are connected to. I believe a given nostr relay can choose to block any user that connects to a particular other relay. /3
I don't expect @alex to be making any such blocks from the mostr relay. My understanding is that one of the reasons he's shifted his focus from Soapbox to NOSTR is one thing that always bothered him about the AP powered 'verse is some random dude can cut off communication between you and your friend unless at least one of the two of you administers your own instance or you create a new account on a different instance. /4
I'm uncertain if momostr.pink or the other nostr bridge whose name I can't remember currently, have similar lax policies that mostr does or not. If you want direct control over anything more than blocking particular users, you are going to have to block any of these bridges.