Nostr provides discoverability

tor is slow, doesnt scale and its not flexible. A native nostr discoverablity layer (and anonimity layer) could be used in many ways. One of them is a better tor with lightning/ecash micropayment to actually scale the service

Tor doesn't work in a browser without additional software. This will.

Furthermore, you can't trust Tor servers and a huge part of them are run by governments. The difference here is that we can choose the relay servers and avoid the ones we don't exactly trust.

a year later and the answer seems to be "yes, tor" 🤘 🚀 it's a hard problem, and we'd be better off with a healthy tor network than trying to re-invent it View quoted note →