what does this have to do with my question? poor avoidance.
Not true. That is a myth peddled by capitalists. Everyone is susceptible to bad behavior, that does not mean everyone is choosing to behave badly. People are also highly keen on sharing. Capitalists spend an enormous amounts of energy trying to beat that instinct out of us through schooling and propaganda.
Bitcoin won't harden. Monero is the only viable solution for crypto privacy,
No. Capitalism has failed. 70% of all the worlds people live on less than 10 dollars a day. 99% of those countries are Capitalist.
Yes. When 130 countries have homeless children, all of which are capitalist countries then capitalism has failed. You don't need to talk about marxism or socialism . Address the provable present and epic failure of modern capitalism everywhere around the world. Socialism hasn't failed in a 130 countries. Explain capitalism failure.
If children are going hungry and shoeless (as millions around the world do) , is that because THEY are lazy bums?
Capitalism fails when it fails children. It fails humanity. I don't care about your financial arguments, Children shouldn't go hungry because of a system they were born into that selfish adults obsessed with wealth have failed to address.
I agree with all of this, but it still doesn't address the censorship issue, there is nothing to stop relays censoring political content the owners don't like. Using other relays isn't really an option if nobody else is using them. MY argument is really against those who claim Nostr is censorship resistant. It isn't really, its only as censorship resistant as the large relay operators chose. Other relays are not relevant, just as Facebook is not censorship resistant because you can switch to myspace.
Which platform/client/offers user backs ups? without running a Nostr relay? ( almost nobody does this because its impracticable - in the end we just have to trust that major relay operators will not delete or censor us)
Yes, keys/crypto is an advantage. I like that about Nostr. But this does not address the censorship or centralization of relay operators problem. Nostr doesn't offer what was promised re censorship because few will run their own relay and few will use small relays if nobody else is using them. So if the main relays censor you, it becomes irrelevent that you can use a small unknown relay that won't. As nobody is listening there.
Great, but if nobody uses the small relays that choose not to ban its not much practical use. In the end we just have to trust the big servers to not censor. Nostr becomes centralised around the big well funded well known servers.
Saying ' well its not censorship because you can always take your freespeech somehwere else' is neither a technical or philosophical solution to platform censorship,. Every other platform uses this clause - of course anyone can put their posts elsewhere eg on Mastadon or Nostr or twitter if censored by one platform. But that has its limitations, and those limitations aren't solved with Nostr anymore than they are with Mastadon.
Bitcoin will never get decent privacy. The core devs have and will continue to work hard to prevent that ever happening. Bitcoin is a state backed currency that requires you to use business owned custodial off chain wallets to give you the feeling of privacy that still does not yet exist.
Is there any way to figure this out though. I don't think this problem can be resolved without some complex off chin lightning type model, which is an awful solution to the problem. It needs to be baked in and I see nothing that can even theoretically address this problem with bitcoin or monero.
And yet FB and Oculus/Meta apps are about the most closed apps on earth. Zuck doesn't practice what he preaches.
Telling the world what to do and succeeding is a strength. You capitalists are full of contradictions because you can't think beyond step 1, maybe 2.
Capitalists determne how much value people can have. Have you looked at the world today? Can I have all your money? Its a value I want.
Because greed is a sin. Look around the slums of the world. And ask yourself if they deserve it.
It sounds like that to you because you are reductive and can't think properly. I blame propaganda.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full
prove it. Nobody has yet.
Not shadow banning is a low bar by which Nostr should set its censorship standards As every day passes I can see Nostr is becoming Mastadon. Really has little going for it once relays are given the power to censor. Actually activitypub offers better and more reliable comms in most instances. We are all going to have to chose relays like we chose mastodon servers. Nostr has lost its was.
I'm thinking, what was the point in Nostr if things can get blocked , taken down by relay hosts. For which most people use the same few big ones. Its better than twitter but only on par with mastadon (which is also more reliable )