I cant stop thinking what lots of different server runners might be doing with my notes instead of one person at company HQ! I'm really struggling with the relay concept. By the time I or a lot of other users find out a relay has been taking the piss and selling data and who knows what, the user concensus view is irrelevant? Still looking for a 101 on what I am missing.
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They can’t sell your data. They don’t have either your email, your real name, your credit card details or anything. What would they sell? And if you worry about your posts, they‘re supposed to be public right?
Correct. The voice of reason on the personal data points, thanks.
And the logic of the censorship resistance? Is Nostr never going down because of safety in numbers of relays on the network?
On an individual level, what protects activists from being doxxed if a relay can see the IP address of users? New nsec for every post. A VPN and an onion relay as standard for using Nostr truly anon?
Hope that's not too many questions!
I’m not a dev or a tech expert, but the decentralized nature of a protocol (in this case #nostr) where it is run in many distributed #relays (databases), makes it difficult to get censored/banned. You’d have to take all the relays down at the same time to hurt it; that’s the whole point, that’s the power of decentralization.
Regarding the IP address, I don’t know if relays store it. And an #nsec for every post would be impractical imo.
Thanks for your insights, makes sense. I'm pretty sure the IP address is a thing with Nostr use.
I think there is work going on with 1 nsec per post. https://anonostr.com/ offer it. Quite a rapid timeline to follow! And I think I read somewhere that the idea is that an anon user would be able to collate their multiple nsec posts in one "spot" but nobody else would be able to do that.
Im not techy either but it is fascinating where it is heading.
Interesting