Looks like relay.damus.io is blocking all community events. I see a error message saying "please use a dedicated relay for moderated communities"
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But I have the 3 relays set up by you and other EH users in my list. Wouldn't it just look to them?
I am getting a feeling #nostr may in practice not that decentralized yet. I had similar problems with habla.news and yakihonne.com
Yeah it should still look to them. But they all might not have the create community event. Maybe only one or another does. Identities are fully decentralized in nostr but nostr notes aren't any more decentralized than fediverse messages. Maybe less in practice as people huddle around a few central relays. I don't think that is a huge cause of concern yet though as it's still easy to host one and the nostr community as a whole is very anti censorship. I think spam and over compensating for spam will be a bigger problem in nostr than blatent censorship
It would honestly make sense if the future of communities in Nostr was dedicated relays - at least for large ones.
The fact that they are so decentralized makes them pretty confusing to explain and hard to get others on board. Because you have to get everyone to use the right relays. Before I really go recruit people to them I think we need stickied post and a way to only browse community post. I may be able to either hack something new together myself or do a PR to another UI