I get that my friend's posts have disappeared and so have his DMs, several times already, due to censorship. Seems like you don't get what free speech or censorship resistance is supposed to mean
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You realise that nobody apart from the sender and recipient can read the DMs?
relay operators still have the oppertunity to delete DMs from the relay DB
you say this but it seems like a relay deleting someone from it also removes the DMs the person sent?
I write to 8 relays currently. That's probably too much but you see the point? If one of them deletes my DMs it doesn't matter
That really sucks but it still doesn’t have anything to do with censorship resistance or free speech. If one relay blocks you, you’re not blocked from nostr. You’re blocked from someone elses DB.
I also had some problems with DMs and posting notes yesterday after the Damus surge, you sure it wasn’t just that? I haven’t seen what your friend wrote about it.
with all due respect this is a cope, the same could be said about tainted bitcoin which gets you either seized funds , frozen funds or law enforcement problems because you made a trade on bisq. sure bitcoin itself is "censorship resistant" but if the outcome is exactly the same as if it wasn't censorship resistant then it is just a massive cope to justify a design flaw which permits such an attack