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I think I have found a concept where I can wholeheartedly say "nostr fixes this".
I [...] can wholeheartedly say "nostr fixes this".
Color me skeptical; the problem is more "liberal"1 than technical.
... now, if people stopped shilling NOSTR as relaying, stopped pretending free speech and net neutrality are their heavenly father and sacred cosmic womb, and began living by policies like "I never zap more sats than one per paragraph", the world would be a better place than Joseph's Tomb in downtown Nablus2, for lack of anywhere else to reference.
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If you model the product of moderation as a subset of all content where only those that match the criteria of someone is visible, then you get something like this:
This is normal; we all have our biases, annoyances, preferences, and so on. On an individual level this is okay.
The problem is that if we filter out the overlap mandatorily for all participants in a discussion, we steer the discussion through our own biases, annoyances and preferences. If this starts hitting influential people (in the way that they get censored) you'll get conflicts, which is what is happening on Nix.
I say that nostr fixes this because it doesn't have mandatory filtering; all filters are client-side (in theory.) So my view and your view of a subject diverge, because we each apply different filters, as we have our own set of preferences.
This helps because it can be hard to have the discipline to not censor your opponents globally, and moderation teams by their very function are there to censor. This is why I asked the question in the first place. We don't want thought police so why do we create institutions that police thought?
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We don't want thought police so why do we create institutions that police thought?
Git1 is the worst of all possible democracies; have you ever tried erasing margin notes from the Decleration of Independence, without recompiling GHC so you can trust darcs more than a bunch of dead wasps?2
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aka "why the entire Nix quirkitude violates POSIX sanity checks" ↩
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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, aka "people who knew how to read footnotes before getting offended until after the Internet killed off racism thanks to paperclips" or something. I dunno, too many memes and people keep on giving me credit for something verbal. ↩
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visible, then you get something like this: https://m.stacker.news/109856
why would you solidbg the euler diagram png; color me blind, foreign, and irrelevant... that intersection needs some alpha channel fiddling way beyond "I only used pastel, why didn't you zap me enough for pro-rata discounting my next Adobe Photoslop License Renewal"
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