As exciting as Nostr is this sounds like it has the same fatal flaw as every other platform...

When it gets popular, people will aggregate around a handful of (or network of) relays where most content will be published, then governments, NGOs and tankies will co-opt and monopolize these to impose their orthodoxy and control information. As it was with reddit, twitter, and more recently lemmy.

Maybe I don't quite fully understand relays yet, but I don't see how this won't happen eventually.

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The difference is there’s no way to permanently remove your voice.

If your banned from one relay, people will still always be able to find you through others.

And there will be relays that some people aren’t on, that’s fine and by design.