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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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sommerfeld 1y ago

You could use your reach to encourage people to use amethyst with orbot or snort/nostrudel in the Tor browser instead of this take.

You can't also compare the severity of providing a phone number + credit card to a big tech company vs providing a random IP to a buch of anon relay providers run by people such as yourself.

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