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An interesting ethical dilemma. I posted yesterday about a scam account that made contact with me: View quoted note ā†’ I noticed the account is still posting today. If this were a centralised platform, I would report the account and forget about it. But on NOSTR there is no central authority. I am tempted to post replies to each message they post linking to my scam alert post, but this would be nearly impossible to maintain in the long term. I took the time and effort, and have the technical capabilities to verify a person, but not everybody does. In this decentralised world, scammers are free to scam unimpeded, bar the few kickbacks they get from people like me. I was theoretically comfortable with this concept until this event. Now Iā€™m not sure how I feel?

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Web of trust should work both ways - not just for showing you notes in your web of trust but warning you about users fpagged by members of your web of trust. In my web of trust clients I only see notes from people I follow or people that they follow. It would be good if my clients also displayed an indication if someone I followed had marked someone as spam or scam. Decentralised trust filtering should work both ways. For both positive and negative filtering.