People do care! Didn';t you see it with FediBlock for the past two years?
What good is the architecture of Nostr when it will be extremely difficult to know of any other instances because of censorship and you will be cancelled by instances just by associating with "a bad instance"
The question is what is blocked?
Public keys aren't likely to be blocked because the worst offenders (for relay performance and UX) is trolls and spammers who create keys very easily, not like emails/phone numbers on twitter.
Content will be blocked, mostly.
If a government or public campaign against a person results in a public key block, it only requires one relay and some other communication mechanism, outside Nostr, to get the word out. It's very easy to add a relay.
> Public keys aren't likely to be blocked
They will be.
> Content will be blocked, mostly.
That is not how censorship-happy people operate. They want you cancelled from all forms of speech, even life.
> If a government or public campaign against a person results in a public key block, it only requires one relay and some other communication mechanism, outside Nostr, to get the word out
Nostr Relay amins are looking at blocking IP's now of 'bad actors". What good is adding a relay when nobody will be able to see it? Add a million relays, go ahead, barely anyone will know of it and want to interact with it because they will get cancelled
You're adding a relay that you, or someone sympathetic, owns, not just another random one. It can't be IP blocked, you're running the host itself, too, by necessity.
This is a losing fight. You can't require someone platform your speech. The censorship-happy people aren't wrong there. The issue is that our current internet and speech mechanisms are run by only 1 or 2 major operators and your ability to spin up an alternative (Truth Social) is extremely limited and unviable in its ability to attract users, and also very expensive.
Nostr fixes THIS, it doesn't fix the censorship-happy people themselves. They'll still exist, that's true. It means there are now 100,000 platforms, equally viable, and you can run your own and spin up an alternative. You platform yourself. You just need to get people to follow you, really follow you, to this new platform. This is very easy and barely a thing, if your speech has even a minor value to people. It's simply adding one 'free' relay.
You are not getting it
>You're adding a relay that you, or someone sympathetic, owns, not just another random one. It can't be IP blocked, you're running the host itself, too, by necessity.
Nobody will be able to find your relay if it is being blocked! The damus relay is going to block "bad IP's" now
Yes, Truth Social is Mastodon remember, which has a better user experience than Nostr, years ahead and people don't like it. Alt-tech always serves a small niche group of people.
>Nostr fixes THIS, it doesn't fix the censorship-happy people themselves.
You are still not getting it. You must be really new to alt-tech. People always prefer larger relays in alt-tech because small relays are usually dead and have low-engagement Look at matrix and XMPP rooms and even small Fediverse instances. Relays will block you by association with relays and this will make it very hard for you to get anyone on your relay
I believe that if you're worth hearing, you'll be heard here by those who value it enough to do the bare minimum. But I'm interested in seeing how it plays out. We'll see. I'll keep using as broad a relay setup as possible to experience it myself. I'm here to witness and judge it for myself. I intend to resist any censorship just because I demand to hear all voices. I demand to be in control of such a choice, as is the intention of Nostr.
Currently I don't see what they can do to prevent my efforts there.
I have a list of free speech relays here
What you don't understand on this example? #[4]
Perfection is the enemy of the good. We can't have perfection. We can't fix the people themselves, which is what it would take to do this non-violently. Without some ideological authoritarianism for this issue.
You see, your definition of 'free speech' is a violation against others. It is outcome based, not opportunity based. You want an outcome that any speech, even the most disgusting, MUST be hosted and broadcast by others and may not be moderated for any reason, even performance, resisting DDoS/spam.
Forcing others to carry your speech is a violation of the liberties of the relay/host and your liberties end when others begin. Adapt. Go door to door to get to the grandmas. Do the work to get them into your relay. You have the means. You have the opportunity.
You are just another mentally ill liberal. You all say the same thing like from script. That is not FREE speech you retarded clown. You are the tool of censorship.
The FediBlock is only viable because the lefties control most instances and instances control what all their users are allowed to see. The politically neutral people join the biggest servers and they don't even know (nor they care) about FediBlock or other political fighting on "Mastodon". I'm not sure if this is possible here. The user can subscribe to multiple relays. If "mastodon.social" boots you, you don't have to lose you account or your followers. Gleasonator etc. will be there to relay your shitposts to the network.
The people here are acting just like the lefties though. I am telling you this is possible and they are already discussing it.
> If "mastodon.social" boots you, you don't have to lose you account or your followers. Gleasonator etc. will be there to relay your shitposts to the network.
You do loose your account! You have to create a new one on Gleasonator.com. Nostr solves that problem which is cool.
I agree. I meant the corresponding "mastodon.social" instance / relay in nostr. If we assume there is such a thing.
