FBI seized a Mastodon server.
So much for decentralization lmao
Nostr fixes this
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_8343173692694380821690459240.webp
Discussion
Authorities could seize nostr relays as well right? At least the big popular ones
They could...it is not clear nostr fixes anything here except maybe the uptime on the service which is not the problem here 🤦
The only way to fix this is if the server operator is oblivious to what is happening, so seizing a server doesn't get you anything and seizures are forced to end point devices to be effective (and limited to only that user).
Xx network nodes have this property, as do some voting systems and other crypto proposals but I'm not aware of anything else at scale.
Yeah sure, but I think if you hid your relay behind the tor network, they could not do shit (or it's not that convenient).
Plus, relays are based on the redundancy concept, so it makes no sense to seize a relay if a bunch of others have the same note relayed again and again
TOR, nym, i2p, etc could help but the metadata behind the comms patterns can make the server identifiable.
They wouldn't help in this case as it was a seizure incidental to something else the admin was doing. I guess isolating to a data center with unique payment info?
The core issue is that the server knows the content.
Yep, not disagreeing justaking sure I understand what you're saying and what could happen