i was looking at nostr relay map on nostrudel nip-66 client and i saw lack of relays on middle east, where we really need to reach the vision of nostr and make the freedom speech possible for everyone. we know that there is a high possibility for these countries to lose their access to public internet as the government did this before for more than a week. i thought what if we run relays on local ips to at least keep the thing up internally for people.

but based on my current knowledge this is not possible since there is kyc on server providers everywhere and its easy to find the server and owner. the question here is what we can do in this situation? the best answer i reached is to keep relays separate, small and bought using different identities. and the most important one we need a way to change the form of envelopes.

last time this happened, wrote a simple messaging service and we used it with a limited number of friends. but for a bigger network im not sure how can we hide it!?!

also, there is some reports about irgfw which ill try to summarize it and share it in english here.

i think for this purpose chinese nostriches can help since i know they have a limited internet too and i can see they are running some relays. i would be happy if you know any of them and mention them here.

#asknostr #censorship #irgfw