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Hilarious that no one on Nostr seems to know that pseudonymity != privacy and yet try to use Nostr being "private" to dunk on anyone who still uses other social media.

You're not going to want to hear this, but Nostr is VERY BAD for privacy, but great for pseudonymity.

For most people, Nostr directly ties their HOME IP ADDRESS to their nym and publishes this correlation to a dozen servers they don't control for all to see.

While being pseudonymous is pretty easy on Nostr, being private requires a good, always-on non-logging VPN, or even better connecting to relays only through Tor at a bare minimum.

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Luxas 1y ago 💬 3

Or, use a blaster relay located in iceland you bought with monero after whirlpooling bitcoin. Then the other relays should only see that blaster's IP, no?

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Seth For Privacy 1y ago

yes, but 99.9% even of the more technical Nostr users can't/won't so that.

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mrecheese 🧀 1y ago 💬 1

I followed you because I thought you could teach me about stuff like that.

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decoyowl 1y ago

This still doesn't help you when it comes to retrieving notes from relays

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