App devs will always pick how and what to show. That is inevitable. You can see how your feed looks completely different in every client. Those are devs choices we make almost every day. It will never be all the same on all clients.

Relays also have the same choice. In the end, you are using everybody's private property. And, if you have no contract with them, they can do whatever they want with your data.

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Then their advertising is disingenuous. I have no problems with app devs stating that they actively filter users (use what ever BS marketing terms they like) but to state they are a 100% what you see is what you get Nostr Client is very deceitful. Will the devs place a disclaimer on their prospective apps/web clients? I think not. Perhaps give the users a choice with a toggle switch stating pure Nostr mode and Facebook Dev fantasy land mode would be an option.

I don't think that will ever be possible. Devs are always choosing what to show. If you don't implement a single nip, for instance, you are blocking those types of posts. And devs cannot implement everything anymore. So, what you see will always be what the devs chooses to code for you to see.

Thank goodness for the open source community desk clients and browser clients. I disagree. Again why aren’t they disclosing this censorship on their prospective app stores? Marketing as censorship free is disingenuous. I’m beginning to view Nostr as a walled garden especially when censorship is implemented on the relays themselves. Marketing Nostr as censorship free is a lie. Can’t be censored is a lie. You can argue that people can start their own relays but that defeats the purpose of social media. The marketing should change to reflect this. Again I’ll reiterate, can’t be censored is the competitive edge that is being marketed. If the main relays that are recommended by Nostr and app devs are walled gardens this should be disclosed. How is this any different to any other mainstream social media? What is the competitive edge?

Yeah, I can't understand how they don't see the irony and clear double standard

The keyword is censorship-resistant. There are as many opions about censorship as there are clients and relays. Some things should be censored... it's the moderators with their agendas that are the problem.