how will they outlaw nostr?
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Easiest would probably be DNS takedowns of the top 25 relays. That's not outlawing but it would disrupt.
but then new relays would take over, no?
That is the hope. Until everybody who was using those reconfigures there would be some loss, I guess. Who knows how long that would take? Suppose we used a nostr chaos monkey that monitors popularity of relays and randomly suggests those relays to take themselves down for a time to see what happens. Maybe it's already chaotic enough that we're OK. I speculate.
Hopefully is chaotic enough. for this to work, it's got to be really hard to attack.
I only follow 46 right now, but if I understand correctly, combined they use 17 relays. If that extrapolates to 4600 using 1700 relays that's great. It is possible given that my client has seen upwards of 1500 relays. Several are direct IP addresses, several are onion, and that's encouraging. Suppose we all configured two IP address relays (no domain name) and two onion relays.