Quick PSA for new nostriches.
NOSTR is excellent at being a decentralized / censorship resistant way to broadcast information.
NOSTR is quite unprivate, and what you broadcast is permanent (no take-backs).
DMs are private as long as both parties private keys are secure, however everyone can see who has been talking to who.
To add: since nostr doesn't host media, if someone posts a picture they are self hosting, they can get your ip address when you load the picture, a VPN is recommended.
So you shouldn’t post images without a VPN? Only text?
Nostr doesn't host images, so every post thay shows an image links you to another server. If I wanted to capture a bunch of people's ip addresses I could self host an image, include that image in a post, and then capture the ip address of the people that look at it (when they query it from my server).
Nostr doesnt seem very safe if you dont have a VPN on all the time when using it…
A VPN is definitely a good idea, you can control which relays you connect to (they could capture IP) but linked media is definitely a bit trickier.
There were a few relays over TOR... would definitely be nice to see more of that.
