Same here, Shanghai based, and this protocol is simply outstanding.
Discussion
How do you access Nostr does the CCP allow outside internet access?
There are ways…. Will just leave it at that :)
CCP has blocked Damus on Apple Store in china region,But we still can install Amethyst apk
on Android phone or change to other region in apple store to install Damus, or use web client. But I'm not sure CCP will block the relay servers in future.
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Can you use https://iris.to/ on brave with VPN?
Iris can access directly. GFW didn't block it.
Could relay servers be reached via Tor? Does the protocol allow for that?
ws:// btcqspp5dl4rlgl5pomcyv3odfeki7a5sdsdsdsdsdsoqz5bth4e7yd.onion:6969/
Gonna be a wild game of cash paid VPNs for these homies in the coming years
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I was thinking about this earlier. No way they allow Nostr, they surely block relays as fast as they are put online?
Maybe “proxy caching relay”? we can make them secret, if they dont store data, but only work as middleman resending data to public central relays. In that case somebody trustworthy can have list of 1000 relays and distribute them to people in china in that way everybody know just part of them. If CCP get some subset of proxy relays others still works…
Is there a way to connect to TOR hidden nostr servers?
我觉得开发者说的这句有道理
You would have to encrypt or obfuscate the protocol
time for a p2p hyperswarm nostr bridge
I thinking about posibility integrate relay into mobile client, so it can work as P2P, syncing notes between “mobile relays” and send them to outside relays and download when they are available and download notes from requested persons. It's not online with whole world, but i think meybe it's way to smuggle batch of messagech over boarder in phone. Do you think its reasonable?
Sad and annoying but it shows that Damus is getting momentum!
Going to do what I can to provide some on the ground content/context to what going down in Shanghai and China more generally.
I had a look at the Chinese firewall the other day, to see what kind of traffic is allowed through. Need a vpn there for almost anything I use.