The current community implementation is pretty awful.
But it does have me thinking. I would prefer moderation to be at the relay level and just allow users to use what ever relay they want.
- You can’t control what a relay owner moderates. So having it in more the one place seems like dirty design.
- Users can easily switch relays
- Needing to approve post by default seems just kinda dumb
But this has me thinking of hashtags. And how they could be used to give a similar community feeling.
If you were to create a UI that automatically pulled in hashtags into communities users could browse by topic the same way. You could still have moderators for that hashtag so if a post doesn’t belong you can boot it out.
Because nostr is so much more open I think it could be done much better than hashtags in other social media sites. The ui could take care of adding or removing the actual hashtag and it could pull hashtags from other users automatically into communities.
I think default relays are important so we ensure all community communication is seen and it would help speed.
Of course the ability for users to add other relays is important for freedom.