Nostr is about publicity, not privacy. Everything you post is public. Intelligence agencies around the world suck it up and feed it into AI systems that build dossiers about you minable with xkeyscore or whatever. There is no privacy on nostr. Nostr is about being public, being heard and not being censored.

If you want anonymity, you can get that with a VPN or with Tor. These solutions were purpose-built for anonymity. Get your anonymity from those layers, not from nostr. Nostr cannot provide anonymity and it shouldn't try to do something that it would fail at badly.

So this critique is a big nothing-burger.

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Yep, if there is no anonymity at the network/transport layer, anonymity at the application layer can't exist.

Maybe clients should give a disclaimer to people that they will be connecting to different "servers" because nostr is decentralized and those servers can see their IP address, so they should consider using a VPN

Very interesting take I have not thought of before.

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Thanks for the reminder. I do think there is something to be said for making nostr anonymous by default by accounting for the lower levels of the network communication stack. Even through nostr is about publicity, privacy of personally identifiable information accounts for the human aspect of censorship resistance. There is a need to post both publicly and anonymously to avoid needing to employ self-censorship to protect yourself.

nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx HUMBLE PROTOCOL IS NOT HUMBLE WITH OUR PRIVACY.

nostr is meant to be transparent same like bitcoin and not keep stuff encrypted or hidden - diff all big tech platform bigbrothers can sniff whatever they like - in nostr even small fellow sniff all info if they like - its all announcing to outside world n building ur digital footprint over time. nobody is anonymous here.

Easy to understand, thanks again.