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It's kind of the opposite of peer-to-peer, actually. It's called onion routing because your connection from origin to destination and back is routed through multiple hops along the way, and each hop only knows where the request came from, and where it is going next, but doesn't know if either are the original origin or destination, or just another hop in the chain. Peer-to-peer would be where the origin and destination communicate with one another directly, with no servers in-between.

Each has different privacy tradeoffs.

Say you want to communicate with someone you trust, and you don't want anyone else to have any ability to see what you are saying. Well then, encrypted peer-to-peer is a pretty good option.

If you don't really trust who you are communicating with, and don't want them connecting to you directly such that they would see your IP etc, then Tor is the better option.

Yeah, and they can totally do DNS blocks against whatever relays they see the anti-government speech occurring on. For that use-case, folks would probably want to use Tor relays anyway.

Yeah, and they can totally do DNS blocks against whatever relays they see the anti-government speech occurring on. For that use-case, folks would probably want to use Tor relays anyway.

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It's feasible, particularly with how reliant we currently are on DNS. If we no longer needed traditional DNS to connect to relays, that would help make Nostr much harder to take down. However, DNS has the advantage of human-readable addressing for relays. If someone asks, "Which relay should I use?" I can tell them "Nostr.wine is a good paid relay," thanks to using DNS. If we went to an onion routing system or something similar, it would be more like, "buhqfhqa7t351qjkfdba863245hqkk44978afbfaakjgwe.onion is a good one to try out."

In the end, though, I think they won't bother with trying to go after relays unless they are a haven for something the government can readily paint as undeserving of free-speech protections. This is why I think relay implementations need to have robust moderation tools so operators can clean out any CSAM.

I feel like they could try if they really wanted to, but it be on existing relays and new ones could be spun up fast, not to mention all the private relays already running… I doubt they’d even mess with those

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Go to bed early to rest hence very tired...woke up 6h later...can't sleep...lol