Banning relays would also be a like a game of whack a mole and largely ineffective - you could just pop a new DNS in front of it, or route it through a local network. It would be almost impossible to keep up with and I don’t know why clients would be incentivized to do so. I think what is more likely to happen is that people flock around relays with potentially different ethos or community goals, and users participate in the ones that align with their goals. If you have something extreme to say, are you guaranteed everyone will hear it? No, but you should still be able to get it out to those that want to. And I think people are just as entitled about what they don’t see/hear on these platforms as what they do. The goal should be user empowerment to configure and tune in to whatever it is they are interested in, and tune out to things that they aren’t.
Then find/build a different client. There are 10s of them now and many more in the future. Clients don’t own the data, and it would be a lot harder for them to implement censorship than a relay, nor are they as incentivize because of that fact. However, they are still beholden to App Store requirements (for those that are in the App Store) and there are some requirements about responding to user reports that could eventually impact this. For now that means any user can block content from any user - which isn’t censorship. But the code is open and there are many many clients, and to truly censor, you’d have to remove content from either all clients or all relays.
Hmm. It’s not a blockchain, just a decentralized protocol. And anyone can run a relay… don’t like the way the operators are running their relays? You can run one of your own. You’re entitled to have relays to write to, even if they’re just your own run relay. And whether you can get people to join and participate depends on if you have valuable content that people want to read 🤷🏻♀️ no centralized force can make that call, but supply/demand certainly could - collectively, most people have decided they don’t want spam and flock to relays that handle that. If there are people who want to read your content, there will be relays that will show it. This community is pretty interested in censorship prevention and most relay operators are doing what they can do maintain that. If they deviate from that ethos, people will likely take their content elsewhere. It’s fully within the rights of relay operators and users to wield those choices.
Yes - that can happen. But because your identity isn’t tied to a relay, you can post and be read on other relays. There likely will be more specialized relays that are developed that are stricter about the content (maybe by topic or audience - think kid friendly, nsfw only, a place for book reviews), relay operators are fully entitled to make the decision about what they host (not to mention the risks of hosting some content, legally speaking), and people can get banned - this is already happening with spam accounts and content. It’s relay redundancy and a decentralized identity that makes it more censorship resistant.
I see you, and I’m with you.
Great song. I also love this version: https://spotify.link/FBssbnA51yb
Ooo I didn’t realize a new one was coming!
What’re you playing in the switch these days?
These three are interesting together. Really makes you want to slow down and get all your ducks in a row before taking action. And then buckle up for whatever happens next.
You’re taking me back to some lovely memories 💜 
Our kitties are so happy to have us home 😻they won’t leave my lap 
Sounds great! I’m going to have to try this. Thank you!
Now I’m thinking about eating homemade tiramisu 🤤 do you have a go-to recipe?
Whoa, that’s an interesting error. Maybe try a VPN from another country, but I’ll shoot a note over to them to let them know!
Good morning! Starting Lavender plants for the garden. Lots of good reasons for this but the big one is to keep deer from the garden. Anyone seen this work? #grownostr #gardeningI have tried and failed so many times to grow lavender from seed!! Any tips? I’ve tried freezing the seeds in a damp cloth for a time before planting with some success?
I don’t think most clients are verifying signature 😬 but I would love to be wrong about this. This is and should be happening at the relay level, but there is a client performance tradeoff doing it at the client level.
What I’d love to see if verification of every event isn’t possible client side: 1. Verification on profile metadata before someone zaps someone else 2. The ability to “verify” any post on demand if the contents are suspicious or really on any event containing an invoice