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What's better from a #libertarian perspective? The federal government staying out of it to avoid infringing on the "rights" of a state to set its own laws, or the federal government "encouraging" states to remove laws that are considered harmful for businesses? @libertarian The Trump Administration’s Order on AI Is Deeply Misguided

after seeing the comments in this threadI agreed to submit an issue to the friendica GitHub repo if @jonathan submitted one to summit too to see if either side would be willing to add robustness to ensure my post looked as expected on summit. I only saw three issues on github.com/idunnololz/summit-f… which made me question whether you guys have a different way you'd prefer to have bug reports submitted.
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I wrote a rather lenghty to reply to some guy's toot asking about if he should block mostr.pub. I thought it might be appreciated here.

Getting some reports about #mostr accounts that seem to just spew word soup, maybe to spam hashtags and links but after reading through a few profiles, I'm unsure what the deal there is. Am I right in assuming that nostr is by design more or less unmoderateable? Is that reason enough to block the bridge? #FediAdmin

NOSTR is a protocol just like ActivityPub is. Neither protocol in-and-of-itself is moderated but supports the ability to be moderated. ActivityPub does it via instances and sometimes is baked right into the platform. (I recall at one time Lemmy automatically blocked any posts that contained reactionary language unless the admin edited the source code and re-compiled it themselves). Similarly, NOSTR relays chose how to handle the reports much the same way AP servers set their own standards.

If I understand correctly, a report goes to whichever relays mostr.pub is connected to, and it's up to each relay how to handle it. Some tag you as a whinny little bitch, others take that note out immediately, others ignore, and I think some actually have a dude look at its content and make decisions whether to remove the nevent (post) or actually block the npub (user).

Same as if you were using a NOSTR "account" yourself, except you don't have control over which relays your account connects to as natives do, by specifically connecting, or specifically blocking in your client. Instead, I think, it is solely determined by which nostr users connect their client to wss://realy.mostr.pub/ and which other relays those same users are connected to. I believe a given nostr relay can choose to block any user that connects to a particular other relay.

I don't expect @alexto be making any such blocks from the mostr relay. My understanding is that one of the reasons he's shifted his focus for Soapbox from a Pleroma focused solution to a NOSTR one is one thing that always bothered him about the AP powered 'verse is some random dude can cut off communication between you and your friend unless at least one of the two of you administers your own instance or you create a new account on a different instance.

I'm uncertain if momostr.pink or the other nostr bridge, whose name I can't remember currently, have similar lax policies that mostr.pub does or not. Regardless if you want direct control over anything more than blocking particular users, you are going to have to block any of these bridges.

In my personal experience I've been on NOSTR for over a year now, but Frienidca remains my primary social media. In that time I can say I've seen way more Bitcoin propaganda than even I am interested in, but certainly a lot less fascist, TERF, and racist nonsense than I have in some corners of the AP based 'verse. But bitcoin bois can get awful annoying. In general hosting a mastodon (or other platform) instance can be a dicey legal situation because you have little control on whether someone's [potentially illegal] porn ends up being stored on your hardware . This doesn't significantly change if you choose to connect your server to a nostr bridge or not.

BTW Soapbox, including mostr, doesn't connect to lemmy. I don't know if that was a purposeful design decision or just no one has bothered to make it work. There is at least one lemmy-like NOSTR client, Zapddit if it could connect to lemmy it might make me shift from Friendica to NOSTR as my primary social media.

youtube.com/watch?v=NelyqyGebj… Although this is from a few months ago this showed up in my feed today. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Eran Ashe. I don’t frequently watch CZW/GCW or the like much anymore. Did more before AEW was a thing. But man, this promo I though was f’n great.

Do you like death matches? You’re part of the problem. What happened to all those death match wrestlers? They all left didn’t they. They all left for greener grass. And what happened? Now they want to crawl back when I make it [embraces CZW title] relevant again. Do you know why I hate death match wrestlers? Do you know why I hate their fans? I hate you, because you think you’re special. You think because somebody falls on tubes, they go through panes of glass they’re hardcore. They’re tough. No, they’re idiots. Unlike me they didn’t have any redeeming qualities. There was nothing that made them special until they started bleeding, and that’s what the people love. The love the blood. They don’t love you Mickey, the don’t love Nick Gauge, the don’t love Rickey Shane Page. They love the fact that they are stupid enough to go out there and mutilate their selves. But unlike me, I don’t need that. I became a world heavyweight champion with these [lifts fist]. I stand in the middle of the ring; I beat the shit outta anybody that ever tries to fight me. Anyone who ever thought they were better than me. I am a champion because I do it by myself and with myself.

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I'm happy that Triplemania is in English without those washed up UFC douchebags who've been doing commentary the last few years. Sounds like it may end up being JBL & Konan doing the play-by-play. JBL has been aroudn AAA a bit the last few years, doing the same kind of pointless, I show up to close-line-from-hell some guy and leave, that he did in TNA.

Triplemania certainly has gone downhill the last few years. It should be better this year, but appears to be a bit WWE heavy, in my opinion. wwe.com/article/triplemania-ma…

Is it worth setting up a full house VPN to watch WWE on Netflix on TV?

How is streaming WWE in Canada l, or ornery parts of the world these days? The WWE Network was awesome. Honestly some of the best streaming service I've seen. When they moved to Peacock a few years ago it was never the same. Not all of content that was on the network seemed to be on Peacock. What was there was not well organized and difficult to find what used to be easy in "the vault." On the network if I started a PPV late there was an option to start from the beginning. On Peacock you had to join the regularly scheduled broadcast already in progress or wait till it was over to watch on demand. Recently they did add the option to at least rewind the show, but it's still annoying and finding th he sweet spot between the end of the pre-show and the start of the PLE is a real pain. Like VHS was easier.

How does Netflix compare? Is it worth paying for a Netflix account a VPN that let's me chose country of IP and maintaining ruining it on an old open router so I can connect my ROKU T.V. to it? Should I just pirate WWE?