I don't think it's possible, for now.
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No, I mean if a relay blocks you what's stopping you from going to another one or making one?
I'm not sure, to be honest.
But if someone defines a protocol that allows relays to share a list of banned users mutually, what would happen?
I don't think it is effective and many relay owners would not prefer that way, but at least looks possible to define. That kind of thought.
That can be a potential issue if Nostr centralizes to a few large relays. As long as it's possible to run your own relay and that there are people run relays that like the idea of free speech, I don't think you'll have any issues.
Yeah. I agree with you. The most of relay owners do not like doing that way, I believe. Mine was just a narrow possibility.
Yeah. Thanks for bringing that up. I think the main issue once relays start banning people for their speech is alternative relay discoverability. For example, if the sysop of nostr.band bans me we wouldn't be able to communicate since it's the only relay that we have in common.
It would be nice to have an immutable list of relays that currently exist. Probably something like the PGP keyserver protocol where a sysop can submit their relay address signed with their npubs. The keyservers can then share their contents with each other to make the records uncensorable.
That hypothetical protocol could also probably borrow the idea of revocation certificates to remove a old relay record in the server.
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