Nostr Web Client

People who do not support, do not care about or never heard about the "gossip model" -- which is basically the idea that clients should (mostly) automatically find people in wherever relays they are and fetch their notes from these relays -- here is a question for you:

What would happen if everybody is following Alex Jones on the 10 biggest relays, but they all collude to ban Alex Jones? Then Alex Jones starts publishing on a relatively tiny relay hosted in Colombiat. How can Nostr fulfill its censorship-resistant promises in this situation? Would all of his millions of Nostr followers have to manually open their settings and add his new relay address?

Tertiushand 2y ago

Depends on the client.

The one I'm working on, when it pulls profiles, it makes a record of their preferred relays from their profile and Nip05 and uses those to query their events. In this case, there would be two scenarios. If they search for his Nip05 identifier and his relay is listed there, it would automatically query his events from his relay via his Nip05.

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