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Hilarious that no one on Nostr seems to know that pseudonymity != privacy and yet try to use Nostr being "private" to dunk on anyone who still uses other social media.

You're not going to want to hear this, but Nostr is VERY BAD for privacy, but great for pseudonymity.

For most people, Nostr directly ties their HOME IP ADDRESS to their nym and publishes this correlation to a dozen servers they don't control for all to see.

While being pseudonymous is pretty easy on Nostr, being private requires a good, always-on non-logging VPN, or even better connecting to relays only through Tor at a bare minimum.
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i sit here watching nostr events in my logs all the time and i use it over a vpn at best the packets are tagged with my VPN address and the relays themselves don't keep this information... i am trying to stop an incessant broadcast from some nutter who republishes the first nostr event over and over from like 10 different VPNs

my relay isn't seeing the origin address, only the VPN tunnel side is

but people who are not using vpns are indeed telling the relay's server where they are... the reverse proxy could be modified to log this information and pull the pubkeys out of the events easily

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