I have a number of Lemmy instances meant for discussion groups around specific topics. They are not being as used as I expected/hoped. I would like to set them up in a way that they can be owned by a consortium of different admins so that they are collectively owned. My only requirement: these instances should remain closed for registrations and used only to create communities.
If you have examples of relays differentiating themselves based on moderation policies, it would be appreciated. Not just “we are extreme free speech holders” vs “we pay attention to some laws here”. What nostr relay is actually running a strict filter, or do any type of analysis on the message content beyond “payment only”?
If instances go down, there are still lots of possible backups: someone can recover the domain name and regenerate keys (or even recover a database copy). If someone loses a private key, there is no turning back. The fact that (some) poorly managed system are not recoverable does not mean that it is as fragile as something as nostr that gives up completely on making it.
The same can be achieved on ActivityPub, no new protocol is needed for that.
Also, this is not matter of individualism, but of UX. It’s “nice” when users have the ability to make decisions on their own, but it is terrible when they have to make all decisions on their own to get started.
Nos.social is one, there is https://github.com/atrifat/nostr-filter-relay amongst other tools integrated into some relays.
You said that like that’s been reality, I’m not going based on simply what’s possible but what’s happened when instances suddenly shutdown
If the same came be achieved why hasn’t it been? It is a matter of individualism. People often see instances as communities, I don’t agree with this assessment with the exception of coop and special interest instances.