So I have been thinking lately, and I'm pretty confident at this point that a relatively private overlay protocol can be done on top of Nostr for people in dangerous situations. It would not be cleanly interoperable with conventional users.
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But that could make the overlay traffic easily distinguishable from conventional users, which might impact that overlay user, right?
Overlay is probably not the best term, but something piggybacking on it. The overlay graph would stand out, but not the individual social graph nodes within the overlay.
Are there benefits to using Nostr for privacy at all, though? If it mimics Tor, why would it be better than Tor?
To clarify: I'm not saying it's impossible or that it shouldn't be tried but Nostr is all about censorship-resistance through interoperability imo. Diminish the interoperability and what's left?