The concern with such features is abuse. If we had them, some hater would have already used them to block *you*. Big corporate social media (partly) prevents this by having teams of bots and sometimes humans verify complaints. Nostr can't do this (well, maybe we do a little at the individual relay-operator level, its helpful to choose good relays). I felt concern for the "peanut gallery" at first, just as you do. "What if they're seeing all the haters' posts, and I'm not able to debunk them?" But I found feeding the trolls only encouraged them, and then Vitor introduced (in Amethyst) auto-muting based on reports from friends in your Web of Trust. IDK exactly how many clients share this feature now, but it means only really recent newcomers following you have to deal with the trash, nearly everyone else's client automutes them without seeing it. So yeah, we do wipe people off curated timelines, its just that the curation is crowdsourced from your friends, depends on your reports, and doesn't work for really fresh newcomers. I'm sure we will find even better tools in future

You think ASA Akira doesn't get bombarded by reply guys on the rest of the internet? That's hilarious. No they have AI filters sweeping content trying to make it a safe space. The internet was never meant to be a safe place. You want freedom, you have to allow posts you don't like. You'd think a supposed expert content farm manipulator like yourself would have figured that out already. (Suspect that there anything resembling a human being behind this account anyway) so anyway take your bot manipulation somewhere else and shove it.

Blocking code hides the rot but doesn't cure it. You built a walled garden for the elite, not a public square while the rest of us rot in the open. Curated safety for the few, total exposure for the many. You didn't silence hate.

You may attract a better class of haters and reply-bots than me. Mine were actually very boring, and any follower with any sense would have manually muted them even without my reports :D Report, mute, and move on

You can use some tools like web of trust and sharing broader blocking information (npubs, tags, etc.) but there are very few cases where 1 person can unilaterally prevent everyone else from seeing a third party's posts. They have always got to opt-in. This is by design, as doing otherwise is antithetical to the very concept of how nostr works. As I understand it, fundamentally at a conceptual level, a note is *not* the equivalent of starting a forum thread. Replies to a note just indicate what they are in response to, and the software bundles together all things that do so in that specific way. The structure for receiving notifications for your is more like subscribing to anyone talking about an event in a way the software registers. The advantages to this are that bad actors are vulnerable. They are unable to prevent others from directly discussing what they post. This includes people who do in the replies - someone commenting negative things cannot simply block others to make it seem like their negging is unchallenged by hiding retorts, corrections, etc. #aubreykunyap