Nostr Web Client

Panel asking what nostr doesnt fix?

Relay centralisation could enable censorship, and the UI asking users to manage private keys is tricky.

Could one app become a centralisation choke point? They say no. Agreed. Nostr has very good migration here, if one app goes bad it's easy to move.

Privacy is not solved here, since almost all content is public anyway, by design. But since so users have public keys, it's a step towards enabling privacy. Agreed, and at least clients won't generally spy on every mouse click and scroll pause.

No mention of the thing I think most important, that censorship resistance means poor moderation that means bullying, spam, and harassment. That's tricky to solve I think. The fediverse model seems more suitable for good moderation.

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set:// 𓁣 🏴 probably 1mo ago

I think you derive your last point about moderation from your lack of experimentation with relay software. The only thing preventing anyone from applying the moderation and/or safety measures they see fit to a relay would be tooling. But there are already plenty of relay software that offer plethora of possibilities. Even on a client level, you can share mute lists. This model is actually more similar to fediverse than most people think, with the fundamental difference that in nostr paradigm, no admin or domain registrar can void your identity and social graph. Being banned from a relay does not imply losing the friends you made on it.

In essence: The protocol is permissionless, relays are not.

set:// 𓁣 🏴 probably 1mo ago

One example in action today, among others but this one you are part of: https://relay.basspistol.org it is essentially banning everyone, except those who have been invited. 😅

If you would set your client to only listen to that relay, no one from the outside of it could communicate with you. In many ways, I've come to assert that nostra is far more suitable for minorities at risk of bullying than fediverse will ever be, because the portability of nostr makes it much more resilient to external pressure.