This is just a reminder to all that Bluesky DMs are not private.

TECHNICALLY SPEAKING THE BRAZIL X BAN IS TRIVIAL TO CIRCUMVENT.

THAT IS MOSTLY IRRELEVANT.

WILL LIKELY STILL BE EFFECTIVE AT SILENCING BRAZILIANS WITH LARGE AUDIENCES. LARGE KNOWN X ACCOUNTS. THEY WILL RISK PUNISHMENT IF THEY POST.

NOSTR DOES NOT FIX THAT.

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.

Remember ordinals 💩 ?

Client level opt out block lists.

What is your setup? Mine the 4.

#asknostr #nostr

How do you deal with the family? It seems that I'm just a delusional madman when I expose my ideas about the world, they don't want to listen or debate, they use silence for every subject that goes against the mainstream.

I try to do it differently but I'm tired and I'm going to adopt silence too, and with that in a few months we won't talk anymore, just empty dialogues... "Hi, how are you... everything and you... too" #asknostr

*runs for an hour*

*gets home*

*oh those cupcakes look good*

Everyone should run their own relay ! We need easier set ups for the noobs..

Good morning

If I were building a community client, I would only show active communities on the home page. Otherwise it looks like a bunch or random dead communities.

Now building fulltext search into nostrdb 😅

good morning nostr, stay humble and stack sats 🫡