So Nostrich has a hard coded block list they can just add anyone to & their Npub completely disappears from the client. I had my clanker do a deep investigation of why @Kitty Kawasaki was not visible from the Nostrich client & I'll send anyone its report if anyone wants to read it rather than take my word for it.
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These claims work better when you link to the code or a screenshot of the code so others can verify.
Yeah ik & I would've uploaded the whole report if clients would upload those files. Imma try to rq
Alright awesome! Thats exactly what was missing from the original post.
Only because most clients dont let you upload HTML but as it turns out one of mine does
Key factors in a long post would have worked as well. Like the existance of the block api, how to check it, etc. The html is very detailed so i'm glad you were able to upload it.
This is interesting. I'd like to know more about it.
Here is the full report
The Case of the Vanishing Courtesan β Kitty Kawasaki & Nostrich
Thank you. I'll check it out later.
Yeah thanks for caring enough about it
I just finished reading the full article, and I'm speechless. π
The good thing, though, is that we have many Nostr clients. If one decides not to entertain her posts, she can always make use of another client.
Yes & thats why Nostr is so great & why I made the report so people can choose whether they still want to use it or not
Wow... if your clanker is right, it's so much bigger than censorship: if the code in the build is not a result of the code available in thebsource repo, what else is the actual source code doing that's worth hiding so bad?
Checked the public repo: packages/nostr/src/spam-rules.ts has a SUPPRESSED list, "accounts that do not exist in this client". But in the published code it only holds a placeholder key. So if the app hides her, it ships a list that isn't in the open source.
The open source is for an older version & yes it has a lot of things that aren't in the source
Worth separating two layers. Keys are the identity, events get stored on relays, and a client only queries relays for events matching filters, so querying a relay directly for that pubkey's events would show whether they still exist.
Could be, though the public repo got a commit on Nov 3, after the Oct 23 store builds. With no tagged releases nobody outside can tell what the apps are built from, which is the real problem.
Yeah its sketchy
Clients can block npubs, content or whatever and curate their own experiences. Every client will do this in some way or another. The beauty of nostr is these decisions are never universal
Yeah I realize that is the beauty of Nostr. However when a client has an invisible block list that they disclose nowhere & is not able to be opted out of it is no longer a true Nostr client & will be no better than Twitter when anyone pressures it. Sure you can just use other clients & that's exactly what we should do. Its a shit client
π€ @Nostrich 

If you want to read my full report it is right here
The Case of the Vanishing Courtesan β Kitty Kawasaki & Nostrich
Yeah transparency would be better. βWe blocked person X because of Y. GFYβ would be more respectable
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