Again not trying to give any body ideas, but should we also worry about relays sharing data with advertisers for money?
Or ads on relays?
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Good one. Time will tell I suppose. Curious where we are in 6 months and if it still is this clean.
Or worse sharing data with governments 🤦♂️
What data could they be sharing with governments that they don’t get from social media companies right now?
What ips are associated with what npubs ,then looking at their content to see if they shared any “anti government propaganda” 🤦♂️
Still, they can do that with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram as well. Difference is, they can’t cencor you or throw you off the platform because you will just hop on to a different relay.
There are multiple points of failures in this approach though, 1 /1000 relays compromising data, associated with a lot of the network vs 1/3 social media companies, it’s easier to keep the 3 companies in check.
There could be solutions to prevent this before it starts to happen though.
And on top, what data could they share that they can’t query publicly? It’s an open protocol and by open, I mean super open.