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.
The lemmy ui has some problems. If I was really good at it I could I guess but there isn’t really much I would want to keep. Even the lemmy devs said they are going to get rid of it. They are doing a complete rewrite. I would probably write a basic ui in plain old javascript with a ui framework like Bulma https://bulma.io/
And then rely on other’s to write mobile UIs.
So many people are writing Nostr Apps, it would probably not take long before they start integrating if we get traction.
So a basic ui is a good foundation
Have you heard of any new nostr apps recently?