Twitter increasing (but not entirely) hands-off approach has already been sat play along those lines. Most people find it an acceptable trade-off for the huge userbase and reach.

Nostr-as-microblogging hasn't been nostr's most interesting selling point imo.(But I'm in the 'isnt this just bitcointwitter2?' camp lol)

Censorship ain’t going away

I've had the thought before that if the best attack vector for slowing Bitcoin adoption is fiscal prudence, then perhaps the best attack vector for slowing nostr adoption is reducing censorship.

Nostr might not be as appealing for us citizens (for now), but from the european and australian and canadian and uk etc. prespective it's an invaluable FU social network. That's a lot of people.

Censorship resistance is the wrong story to tell. The story to tell is disagreeableness versus agreeableness. Build an agreeableness trending protocol and you get a new class of influencers. This is how you polarize the microblogging space to put a check on the radical idiots on both sides

Seems to me that this is likely a temporary reprieve if it goes through at all. If 2028 yields a reversion to the status quo, the censorship will likely return, but nostr will have had 4 years to be improved and built out and up.

Why would the incoming administration work toward neutrality? Are they predisposed to be the “bigger person” side? I don’t buy it. Just move to nostr.

Brave AI has been exceptionally good, I barely scroll down for links anymore.

we still don’t rely on any law for our censorship resistance. that’s pretty enticing to me. code > law

En el mundo real todo funciona como un reloj, cumples la ley, respetas la privacidad.

En la práctica surgen soluciones como Nostr.

Depending on you reading of trump I guess. I expect trump's disregard for democracy to starts shine through in his actions pretty fast. Then the need for social media outside of government control will be very clear.

I always hope we never REALLY need any of this freedom tech.

But yeah probably app interoperability will always be the best seller. Unless things go really dark.

Is Trump for Section 230 now? I remember back in his first term he was very against it.

Yeah, leave it to the algo so there isn't any human liability 😂😂😂 , or how about no 😂😂😂

Note that Trump essentially threatened this the first time around. His own Department of Justice determined it would require Congress to change Section 230 not to provide immunity from liability to platforms for censoring content they deemed to be, among other things, "otherwise objectionable" (effectively a green light to censor whatever they wanted).

FWIW, I agree with this law as written; but, would also agree that it should be rendered obsolete by ensuring censorship-resistance at the protocol level.

The government should not enforce non-censorship. That's absurd. It's unsustainable. Something will break.

neutrality laws are a double edge sword. They could also be abused for censorship (as they have been in the case of TV channels in the past). Government should stay away from this issue all together. Competition should be the safeguard against censorship, not the Government.

100%

Communicating nostr censorship-resistance as first thing is not a winning strategy

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Unfortunately most money comes from US, so what you said probably is true. The Global South and Europe still needs the censorship resistance part of Nostr, but there is much less money involved.

I 💯 agree. Those were way better selling points than censorship free anyways.

Trump won’t actually make any real changes to section 230 just like he won’t change or repeal the ACA. Too much of the system depends on the way 230 works now. If you change it so platforms can’t remove or prioritize the content as they see fit then either the platforms become unusable due to spam and scams.

Trump meant that he doesn't want his personal partisan loyalists to be censored. He wants any media critical of him to be persecuted & prosecuted to the fullest extent.

It's true. Less censorship means less Nostr demand.

But politicians like window dressing. They say "no censorship" as a guise for more censorship, just in their favor.

Elon is the biggest culprit. He still censors lots.

Censorship resistance will be very enticing if nostr ever achieves a serious level of it.

Where are the Hamas operatives on nostr? Where are Hezbollah? These are a couple examples of groups much bigger than our infamous Twenty People Talking About Bitcoin Exchange Rates, and these groups would be here, but I don't see them because this protocol does not take censorship resistance seriously so far.

Your post, with you being a dev, further proves my point.

In a free country, shouldn’t platforms be allowed to censor if they want? Isn’t it the government that shouldn’t restrict speech?