The fediverse is better after all =)
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giving up on nostr?
Hard disagree. On Nostr you own your private key. It is trivial and cheap to switch relays and clients. On the Fediverse, relay admins get to leverage your account, your posts, and your social network against you. If a relay admin wants to censor you, or censor those who might talk with you, then there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, besides deleting your account. True censorship is fucking exhausting in a way that Nostr could never be.
For example, if Vitor didn't include a setting to turn off his repetitive poster filter then I would have abandoned his client instantly, no matter how shitty the alternatives are. If Vitor added speech requirements to his terms of service then I would have abandoned his client instantly. I've done it before too. Shit, I might use another client just for shits and giggles and there's nothing Vitor could do about it. In fact I'm on NoStrudel right now.
This is all not to mention how much of a generally shitty idea it is to tell a pedophile like me that I should go join some echo chamber ActivityPub instance. You aren't even the only one arguing that to me right now, here is a pedophile telling me to join his instance:
The fediverse is for cowards who are afraid of speech and who don't respect users. I have seen the choices you've made and I struggle immensely to see you in such a negative way. Are you really going to switch?
What good is owning your key if everything else sucks?
They key is not worth terrible user experience and backend experience, that's why Nostr's growth sucks.
VItor shadow bans users by default, that should be enough of a reason to bail.
The benefit of owning your key is that Vitor's choices don't matter in the long term; users can switch clients any time.
Otherwise I 100% agree that everything else sucks. If you want a platform that doesn't suck, there are more mainstream options like Twitter. (I assume Twitter's user experience isn't terrible; I've never used it.)
If you are leaving just because Nostr is full of crypto-bros and bots and because Nostr has hardly any good native content, then I 100% support you leaving. It's just that I would be really sad if your decision was because of one client's default filter settings.