All this applies to Nostr in comparison to conventional social networks:
- Nobody can stop you from creating an account.
- No one can cancel your account.
- No one can demonetise you.
- No one can censor you.
- Thanks to its architecture, the network works without interruption 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.
- Free of KYC.
Nostr is tremendously undervalued.
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No one can censor you?
I don't think this is really true. Relays can censor your notes, or your npub - but you are free to use other relays, or your own relays. Content hosting (image hosting) can refuse to host your images or content. Anyone can ignore you, block you, or otherwise curate their content to not include your notes.
So everyone can censor you, individually. As it should be. The difference here is there is no central control over censorship. No one person or organization that can determine your content is not worthy of being transmitted through the nostr protocol. Each relay operator, content hoster, and user is able to censor for themselves.
With nip-65 you set up your own relay and nobody can censor you, you set up your own image and video server and nobody can censor you.
Being ignored, muted, or blocked is not censorship. It's other individuals choosing which content they want to see. Censorship is an action that prevents your content from being posted. A relay operator banning your npub is a type of censorship, but only in the way that being kicked out of someone's bar is censorship. You don't have a right to a venue on other people's property. Nostr is censorship resistant because you're free to run your own relay, or publish your content to relays that welcome your content. I think it's important to understand what censorship is, and be careful not to misuse the term because doing so is ultimately a destructive act that mislead.
