Perfectly put. More than likely there will always be censorship. To presume any platform fixes that is foolishness.
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I don't think Nostr was ever intended to have no censorship at all, but to be censorship resistant.
I run a relay, and I limit notes it stores to people in my web of trust. Is that censorship? If someone mutes another user so they don't see their notes, is that censorship? Or is choosing what you see and broadcast actually part of your own freedom of speech?
I'm pretty confident I can get my notes out amidst any circumstance.
- I subscribe to a couple good paid relays.
- I run my own relay on a VPS.
- If all those fail, or refuse to host my notes, I have a relay ready to go on my home PC that I can start in an instant.
- If that fails I have a relay setup on my phone, connecting over tor, that I can turn on.
I don't know of any other protocol that gives me those kinds of options.
Resistant vs proof. Exactly right. But I think many believe it’s proof. And ironically, you will see notes from people thinking there needs to be more filtering at the relay level since clients are limited.
Now that outbox is getting to be widespread amongst clients I think relays filtering is less of a problem. It's not just a few main relays anymore, there are thousands, and you don't need common relays to pass notes. Anyone with a minimum of hardware and technical knowledge can run one, for just themselves, or for a community.
This is incomplete, but still relevant. I know nostr:nprofile1qqsdfx5syw3pmwsm8jpsdj3kn0ejg0vtgju0pdk3r9nq0aasny863hcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdnxcctjv5hxxmmd9uq35amnwvaz7tmnv4hxg6t59ehx7umxd3shyefwvdhk6tce90cwc has an option using CloudFlare I should add.
Anyone truly concerned with moderation by other people should be running their own relay. Otherwise they're just LARPing.
Running your own client is even easier than running your own relay and you can use it to fetch content from any relay. If a client censors content, users can and should dismiss it.
