Well, after some time of lurking around, I still don't seem to grasp the concept or Nostr.

If notes and other events aren't automatically propagated across all known relays, how exactly is this "censorship-resistant"?

If I need to run my own relay to make sure not to be censored, how is this different from running a Gopherhole and its web mirror (which I already do) on my own VPS or even an onion service? How can I make sure the relay server I run cannot be traced back to me?

Why Lightning (essentially a crutch on top of BTC) and not e.g. Monero? Why integrate any opinionated cryptocurrency here at all?

Why websockets, of all things? Why build it on top of bloated protocols and tooling? Sure, one can audit the NIPs, but can anyone audit modern browsers or standalone websocket and crypto libraries that they use?

Overall, the goal looks noble, the high-level proto looks simple enough, but the underlying implementation introduces too much unnecessary complexity. A protocol that cannot run on a featurephone with 128K RAM is flawed by design IMO.