alanajoy on Nostr: Idk who needs to hear this (yes I do) but as nostr gains traction there will be ...

Idk who needs to hear this (yes I do) but as nostr gains traction there will be people who will create accounts to essentially test out the censorship resistant nature of this protocol by saying the worst things they can think of. On the internet we call this trolling.

Yesterday this happened to many people, myself included. What I did:

1. Block the account.
2. That’s it. That’s the list.

Blocking on nostr is like muting on Twitter, and I’ve always preferred muting anyway myself.

What I did not do:

1. Rage for 87 hours against the protocol and the developers of clients on the protocol
2. Drag race and gender into the conversation
3. Position myself as a victim
4. Position myself as a freedom fighter

I think as real freedom of speech gets normalized eventually people will stop testing it by saying things for shock value but there will always be trolls and morons. It REALLY doesn’t matter.

Unless you have legitimate reasons to fear what some troll says they will do, block and move on with your life.

Ranting and raving like a lunatic isn’t fighting for freedom, it’s noise. That’s not “doing the work” it’s doing yourself in.

I don’t imagine this will be the last time someone trolls or freaks out because of it. Legacy social media has trained people to cry about it, validated the victim stance, and platformed idiots that rally other idiots to deplatform the first idiot.

Nostr is forcing people to gain social skills and ways to deal with conflicts and trolls beyond this psycho-cycle that ruined interaction and ushered in censorship to protect fragile feelings.

If I have to block trolls who make empty threats on photos or whatever daily in order to have a place to engage free from censorship, I’m fine with it.

“As a woman”, even.

Get over it.