Some people in the amythest chat are saying that the filters in nostr are applied in such a way that reports from your sphere of influence effect what content you see.

For example your follows and people they follow, if they report a post as spam you may not see it.

https://iris.to/ seems to filter out more stuff for me than amethyst. And in amethyst I can turn off it’s some filters. For example I have

Filter spam from strangers

Unchecked because I want to see stuff. and I have a fork of amythest running with no filters.

There are really 3 points of possible censorship in Nostr

  1. Relay level
    • To mitigate this have multiple relays. You already do by default
  2. Client level
    • Filters. There are plenty of clients with filters turned off but spam is a problem in a open network like nostr.
  3. Image hosting. The default image host for most nostr clients is nostr.build .The owners of that service can delete your image. You can mitigate this risk by hosting your images somewhere else like catbox.moe or even exploding-heads.com

We will be getting exploding-heads relays installed. I will be hosting another relays as well. I already have the golang running locally just need to write some ansible. So this way users around this neighborhood can be confident their relay is not deleting their content.