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If the whole establishment tried this with full force they might succeed...for a while.

But it would reveal nostr-s supremacy and draw a lot of attention, and ppl would try to make it work by almost any means:

- Run relays behind tor

- Disseminate relay lists on DHTs

- ... ?

It's just a reality that you cannot suffocate sth that is heavily in demand worldwide. Humans find a sly roundabout way.

Look at the example of torrents and pirate bay.
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alp 8mo ago

Good one. Haven't thought about relays behind Tor. Would we users also have to use Tor to post in that case?

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Five 8mo ago

Yes I think so, hidden onion services are only accessible via tor.

And possibly we would have to run some tor-relays to bear with the higher traffic.

Ecash could help incentivize such a network without relying on altruism alone.

There are other protocols like i2p and freenet (and possibly mesh networks and such) as a substitute or fallback but I think at that point no one would be able to predict how that situation would really play out.