figure I should quote this reply on a newer post and not one that’s 93 days old since you aren’t seeing my posts. Yes, I am shadowbanned by many clients. You have to turn “Web of Trust” off to hope to see my posts in some clients. Many central figures in the Nostr social graph have a political bias that ends up marking dissidents for censorship. I don’t support Web of Trust as a mechanism for filters and there needs to be a bigger push to make a fair and open filter of Bayesian mechanism for Nostr like SpamAssasin serves for e-mail spam.

wow, I was only joking when I mentioned a Nostr “shadowban” )): after getting banned on twitter, everyone kept telling me Nostr was this beautiful heaven and savior for “dangerous” people like me (lol)… so I jumped in with real hope. Hearing that shadowbans can happen here too is honestly such a disappointment… On the client side: I don’t use any! I really dislike installing apps in general, so I do everything 'social' through the Tor browser: if something doesn’t work in Tor, it basically doesn’t exist for Aillia :) and I’ve tried pretty much every browser-friendly nostr client out there, so it’s def not client-specific. Thanks weev, it’s sad but really revealing. (and situational awareness is a good thing). Btw, if it’s not client-specific, is it possible on the relay level?

It is probably on the client level. A lot of clients have WoT features. I use @Nostur and you have to turn off Web of Trust in the settings to receive DMs from me or get notifications for my replies. In several clients it can be disabled. Maybe your client doesn’t have the capability, but it is on by default in a lot of them. I think WoT is bad because it can create bad incentives (people intentionally blocking/reporting people they don’t like to make sure their posts aren’t seen) but people don’t also realize that this behavior becomes an inadvertent act of censorship to your own followers. There’s a lot of thought going on about how exactly anti spam should be handled in Nostr. Even though WoT seems to fuck me over, I still think Nostr is the medium I want to use to communicate. It is the only thing I am not banned on. The fact that we can even have this conversation at all shows that Nostr is a great medium. Because we definitely can’t have it on Twitter, where we are both banned.

I'll turn it off. NOSTR has been looking very stale to me in the past few months. Not seeing new people albeit the firehose shows a lot of activity.

yeah. unfortunately, it was not very late to arrive. There was already “free speech” sites like Gab and Poast. Which I am banned from both of them. Elon unbanned a few federal informants on Twitter and now normal people think the site has free speech (it is actually even more censorious than it was when it was ran by libtards, and I am still banned). But point being, everyone who would desire free speech and decentralization has largely already been silo’d in platforms that do not deliver it, though with the general public perception that these platforms are now very good at delivering free expression. So it is hard to convince people to come to Nostr.

Patience, my friends. The correct time to approach people about Nostr is when they've just had an account banned / suspended. That is when people are willing to consider its value proposition. Over a long enough time, the number of centralised social media owners who've had an account banned approaches 100%. And those left are likely those with no opinions of their own.

It’s easy to say patience, but social media and small donations were the primary revenue source of my business. You say “patience” but food has been taken off of the table of my children. They are poorer as a result. I am out of patience. My health is failing and my current plan when I don’t think I’m going to have much time left is to give my kids all my crypto and drive a truck into a crowd of the people responsible for this. I’m out of patience.

What content that you post about gets you industry wide bans?

It’s not about the content I post. It’s that they don’t have kompromat on me while I post it. There are countless subjects you are allowed to develop a public following about as long as they have a videotape of you fucking catboys or troons or whatever. As long as they think they can dismantle you, and you are not a threat, you can post a lot. But if you aren’t compromised and you develop a large body of followers, then they get very aggressive. Anyways you can just run a search on my nickname. I’m a public personality. I’ve been on most TV networks. I’ve had pieces published in Condé Nast magazines like Wired. I’m an early Bitcoiner. I’ve set federal court precedent that protects everyone. But there’s a completely arbitrary list that intelligence services maintain, and if you are on this list, you are no longer allowed to use any public utilities.

I just did, lol I shall advertise Nostr as "Weev's choice" as well perhaps, haha.

I think this AI summary is poor, and also involves a lot of complete dishonesty on the part of the lying press. I have never done any targeted harassment, nor encouraged a “wave of abuse” against anyone. Of course, there are lots of people that like to say any public criticism of them is “targeted harassment”. Even institutionally this happens — like when Columbia and Sony Pictures officials claimed bad reviews of the 2016 all-female Ghostbusters were a misogynistic conspiracy to destroy the film.

Day-uhm! After adjusting for obvious MSM bias, that is a wicked bio. If I hadn't already clicked "follow" on weev earlier, I would after that :p