So what would happen if some authoritarian government asked top relays to stop transmitting some (random) dude's notes? What's the difference between being totally blocked and being almost entirely silenced? Publicly relevant people will find a way to transmit; less relevant people could be just as silenced here as in Bluesky. Just wondering...
So Bluesky has just banned some guy exclusively on Turkey only because the Turkish government asked.
(from https://x.com/aliskorkut/status/1912191854939943362, this is the profile: https://bsky.app/profile/carekavga.bsky.social)
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If youre that much of a target, running your own relay is trivial and necessary
If you are much of a target you might not have the time or the skill. That's just idealistic thinking.
Then you had no business making yourself that much of a target anyway lol.
The point is even if somebody managed to coerce every large relay into censoring, it would still be trivial to get around it
Thats not idealistic, thats reality
never under-estimate the resolve of the oppressed. history has proven a clear trend. under duress and oppression, there will always be one that will break through to look straight at the devil in the eyeballs with the stab in the guts.
Random dude uses other niche relays. People who follow random dude automatically connects to niche relays and fetch random dude's posts. No one has to install anything.