If it's meant to be taken seriously then no, you don't. It's not an impossible problem to solve.

In the US you can get a phone number anonymously (although the number is location tracked so you'd have to use it tactically for true anonymity)

Idc about any other country.

>In the Nostr case, every one of these relays would have to turn on you simultaneously for you to have a problem.

All the relays, or just the clients, which wouldn't take much if they automate hiding content based on reports, which most likely all clients will eventually have to do.

Most content is also centralized on a few relays so that wouldn't take much either, only reason it doesn't happen is bc databases are decoupled from the clients, so everyone just lets clients handle those decisions.

As with all decentralized systems, its resilience is mostly an illusion as is sustained more by the community than the architecture itself.

There's a qualitative difference between NIP 05 verification and a Fedi server, for multiple reasons. NOSTR relays will accept new content more or less indiscriminately, for one. A Fedi server won't even know a new account exists unless there's already a connection.

Then they spend $3.99 on another domain and are back in 5 minutes 🤣

Because you can just buy a few domains and create infinite accounts for $10 instead of for free. Doesn't fix anything.

Search your heart.

You know they're not T_T

Not really good enough either.

I know people hate that mainstream websites require a phone number but honestly it's not a bad standard. You can get them anonymously, it's just not the norm. That would also keep minors away.

That won't be good enough on its own either. Twitter requires phone numbers for most regions and still have a spam problem, but it's at least a fencepost.

One of the good parts about Fedi is that moderation is so localized that it's pretty rare for a mass spam attack to happen, and it's easy to cauterize when it does happen.

Having the barrier to entry for creating infinite NOSTR profiles be literally an Internet connection and nothing else means there's no good solution. A Web of Trust is not great but neither are any of the alternatives.

No authentication requirement is retarded from the start, so anything NOSTR builds will have to work around this retarded flaw in the architecture.

I agree, I'm long past thinking decentralized or "free speech" in some absolute sense are what matter. I just want a place where I can post, follow people I like, and have fun without getting shadowbanned and Fedi/NOSTR is the only place like that rn that isn't obnoxiously hyperpolitical (naming the jew on Gab dot com gets quite boring after the 101st time)

I think the advantage to NOSTR is mostly that it can support things that mainstream sites do well better, and this is actually because the databases are more centralized. But until I have some confidence in the security of the thing, I can't take it too seriously, and I don't think the devs take it all that seriously either. I think eventually a massive hack of some kind will happen and after the damage is done, then the devs will go "shit, I guess we'll deal with it now"

Your post will probably get taken down but I've never been banned for a slur, and Idrc if my shitposts get taken down.

It won't look the same at all bc the architecture is so different but there will always be a taboo class for sure.

That's funny. I've been on Threads for the past month saying whatever I want and the only issue I ever ran into was getting mislabelled as spam a few times, but every time I appeal, it gets resolved within a couple of hours. Meanwhile NOSTR is ramping censorship up 🤣

A time where the mainstream Web2 sites are loosening their moderation and taking a relatively free speech approach is not a time where you want to make things worse on alt platforms.

NOSTR has to do something though, no barrier to entry puts all the burden on clients and Web of Trust isn't enough to solve the problem on its own. You have to have some kind of system to make the calculation for who's real and who isn't for NOSTR to work. Maybe paid relays really are the only way to make it work.

Eventually you'll probably be able to pick out bots more reliably with AI though so maybe the issue will fix itself in a few years. Hard to say.

Re: algorithm, this is actually something NOSTR clients can probably do well compared to Fedi because there aren't heaps of missing content. Every relevant relay pretty much has everything.

Is the censorship game really growing? Things seem mostly fine right now.

Maybe it will come back in a big way in a few years but rn the priority for NOSTR should probably be better security (no one is working on this afaik), better onboarding (people are working on this), and a decent algorithm to help people find content suited to them without crawling through firehose hell and dead hashtags (It looks like maybe some people are working on this? But I couldn't figure out how it was supposed to work last time I used NOSTR)

The bigger issues are access to encrypted messages, using popular accounts for scams, existing users with big followings not being able to recover them, things like that.

Like imagine if Chrome had some exploit where hackers were able to read the contents of browser extensions under certain conditions, a hacker sat on it for a year and collected the keypairs of Fiatjaf, Gleason, Will, Dorsey, all the big names, and then used them all at once to shill some kind of fake KickFundMe or crypto scam.

You know these dumb niggers would fall for it and you know a lot of the more casual browsers wouldn't move to their new keypair.

NOSTR has a lot going for it but it seems like a security nightmare just waiting to happen.

That's not really the most important downside of other people getting access.

Actually, stupid me, I bet a lot of people aren't even using extensions to login, so probably all it takes for a mass hack on NOSTR is one new client who accidentally secures their server improperly, or for an impersonator to hang around for a few months.

Until someone implements some way to rotate keys it just seems like a matter of time before an exploit in Firefox or smth like that causes a thousand people to permanently lose their accounts. That seems like a much bigger issue with NOSTR than theoretical censorship (which is solved by installing a web browser, and if someone can't figure that out, I don't particularly want to talk to them anyway.)

You are incorrectly assuming that any of it is in good faith. They just hate you. That's it.