Now even if all nostr relays on the Internet vanish, you can still DM me.

Every broad scale algorithm can be gamed. The only solution is for every person to have their own private algorithm, so they cannot be all gamed simultaneously.

The medium of human speech is air.

Sometimes, people use that medium to say stupid things or to be too loud. As an individual, you either listen or ignore it and keep going with your life.

You would never think about banning air because somebody is saying nonsense.

Well... a Brazilian judge just did that. He banned a medium because he didn’t like something.

Gm.

It seems that it will be very hard for Brazil to identify and enforce the fines on VPN usage for Twitter/X. But it’s a powerful scare tactic.

When the United States banned gold ownership in the1930s (which lasted for four decades all the way into the 1970s btw), they didn’t really enforce it at the household level. They just had large prison terms that were rarely ever applied, which effectively dried up liquidity in the gold market.

Some people have pointed out that Nostr relays could be blocked by Brazilian internet providers if Nostr was big enough to matter. However, more relays could spin up, so they’d have to keep adding to the list.

Brazil’s government could then say it’s illegal to use VPNs for any Nostr app around internet censoring. The defense against that is to make Nostr as ubiquitous as possible. The more apps that tie into Nostr in some way, the harder it is to ever ban it in practice. Some people might not even know their favorite app uses Nostr. Imagine if everyone’s favorite short form app, long form app, podcasting app, reviews app, wallet app, recipes app, picture app, music app, and tons of other stuff are tied into Nostr, and how hard that would be to ban.

If Nostr becomes big enough to really matter, it’s because it’ll be tied into so many different things. That’s super powerful. And the devs keep building rapidly.

Why did the Empire bother to compact their garbage if they just ejected it

into space anyway?

-AMeanCow, Oct 2014

the whole point was 'it only affects influencers' from the original post.

It's not controversial.

Personal messaging is more needed and used than public social services.

By the way, that's why protocols > platforms.

Judges ban platforms, not protocols.

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i just looked it up, even tho it's very obvious going to be a huge number. It's around 22million Brazilian users on twitter. that's not an insignificant number. Surely?

millions more probably use a messaging app, millions still use twitter. why is this controversial lol

millions of Brazilians use twitter, they're not all influencers. this seems obvious

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