You’re absolutely, right. We are NOT going to be able to reach everyone. And you know what? That’s fine. This ecosystem isn’t here to force our views on everyone else. It’s to allow the free expression of one’s self, at least within societal norms, that can’t be censored or restricted by some overarching governmental or corporate entity. #Bitcoin is meant to provide an alternative means of exchanging value with others without a government or corporate entity telling us with whom, when and how much we can transact. Nothing in it is meant to force anyone to the table or to come around to our way of doing things. #Bitcoin and #Nostr don’t care. If you want to play, come on in. If you don’t, no worries or hard feelings. It’s literally that simple.
With that said, not everyone will come here with pure intent to #Nostr. For instance, I don’t want to see a bunch of child porn, or porn at all really, on here. I’m a God-fearing man who is married to a God-fearing woman and we have a bunch of kids. We attend church weekly. God is a central part of our lives in many of the things we do. We don’t believe that exposing our kids to other people being exploited is in anybody’s best interests. However, don’t get the idea that we’re by any means perfect. We’re far from it. I actually don’t know for sure what can be removed from #Nostr, but it seems like pictures are hosted on an external hosting service so those can probably be removed. There is a “report” button where a post can be reported. I have no idea what happens when that button is pressed. I think the #Nostr relays might be able to control which other relays they connect to such that if there are a few “bad actor” relays then they can be dealt with in some way, but it’s probably not as simple as a button to ban someone like in a centralized service. I think that having a completely open and unmanaged system can only lead to chaos eventually, and I think there are some things that can be done to help police the place, but if a government or corporation wants to detain someone or threaten someone or censor someone then I don’t think this is practical. Who are they going to threaten or detain? Given the decentralized nature of the network, good luck. It’s not always going to be sunshine and roses for decentralization, but the collective “we” will figure it out, and by the looks of it we’ve got an amazing system here that seems to be succeeding.
