mplorentz on Nostr: "It's the same unworkable, easy to fake, hard to validate problem with all moderation ...

"It's the same unworkable, easy to fake, hard to validate problem with all moderation today". It's true that you have to do some trusting of relay operators. That's part of the Nostr protocol though and it's probably never going away. If you don't want to trust relays then you need to put your events in some of merkle-DAG, like scuttlebutt, AT protocol, p2panda, and others do. It's been tried, and it works, but it comes at the cost of simplicity because it introduces lots of problems around deleting content, verification of the DAG, and cross-device identities. Nostr's power is it's simplicity.

This *is* better than moderation on all major social platforms because you get to choose your client and your relays. So even though there is trust involved you get to choose who to trust, which is a lot of power. If you want a trustless system you need to find another protocol. This is actually a big criticism of Nostr from some of the p2p social protocols.