From my understanding on fediverse you have multiple separate identities on each server that you decide to join and they all are controlled by the respective server admin. So your followers on one server are not able to follow you on the other using the same credentials. Which means your followers are only yours as long as a server admin allows you to have them. This in my mind is an enormous negative feature of the protocol, which overrides any positive ones.
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Yes "identity" is per server.
>So your followers on one server are not able to follow you on the other using the same credentials.
You misunderstand. Of course they do. You can talk to any server. This part is called federation. Admins can defederate other instances or individual users though. Well the point here is that you find suitable server. On Nostr relays can do the SAME and you must equaly find suitable relays. So the relays are instances. There is no fundamental difference. People not using free speech relays won't be able to find you. This will be majority of users who use defaults. The users using default normie relays will not touch free speech relays. What's the difference? Nothing. And this will yet go further as blocklists Nostr devs and relay operators discuss will be implemented. The free speech portion of Nostr will be one digit % and liberals create their Berlin communist wall again. You can't stop that with any protocol. We can only argue nostr makes it slightly easier as on fedi you need to create new identiry here you just switch relay, if there is such.
From a fedi admin friend:
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Interesting, I agree that the probability of the majority of users using potentially heavily censored default relays is high. However, I think that we both do agree that NOSTR does have a clear advantage over fediverse by allowing users to completely own their identities? Which in turn makes circumventing relay/server censorship way easier and does not require users to start over completely from scratch if they get banned. That seals the deal for me personally.
If you have valuable content, people will try to find you. And certainly free minded people will continue to run uncensored aggregator relays.
Which btw you can do on your own relay. Just publish to every relay that you can find.
