There's ONLY 3 things nornies need to understand.
1: instead of email and password you have a secret passcode to login.
2: instead of posting to twitter's database you post you multiple decentralised databases.
Because of 1&2 you are anonymous, your posts cannot be censored, and you can use the same passcode to login anywhere on NOSTR.
Secret passcode? Like “Abracadabra” ? 😆
I don't think we should set any expectation of anonymity.
It basically is anonymous...if you start getting into technicalities or using uncommon terms like "pseudonymous" it's big turn off to most people.
This just seems like the same kind of not quite accurate marketing as the people who used to say bitcoin had "cheap, anonymous transactions."
It all depends on your threat model I suppose, but unless you're taking extra steps to not dox your network connection and shield your use from your ISP, "anonymous" is a bit too strong of language for my taste.
Focus on censorship resistance, that's not a stretch and won't get people in trouble for taking the meaning literally.
Normies don't use bitcoin, not because the transactions aren't cheap or fully anonymous. That simply never entered the sphere of consideration for whether neighbour Joe decides to use bitcoin or not.
Nostr IS anonymous for the purposes the average person would use it. There's no kyc, no email sign up, and you're data isn't stored on a centralised server.
We shouldn’t tell people that it’s anonymous.
Your IP address is associated to your posts. If I were the govt, I would be running nostr relays collecting all the good stuff: eg. Who DMs whom, what you post and your IP address, etc.
Nostr is far too small for any govt to invest resources into that kind of tracking operation.
MUCH easier to force disclosure of that info from apple, google, twitter, FB, IG, tiktok, Reddit, medium and all the other centralised platforms that make up 99% of all social communications on the internet.
Just so long as it’s clear to people that nostr isn’t anonymous and that govts could track us whenever they want. I suspect that, because all messages are broadcast without encryption (like emails), they are being logged for future analysis (like Snowden revealed).
IMHO, this is nostr’s biggest flaw. We can’t have censorship resistance without privacy. I expect people will start censoring themselves as soon as someone is punished for posting something.
I believe Nostr's privacy will evolve and it will become a non-issue.
