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fiatjaf _@fiatjaf.com 8 months ago
It's hard for some people (including highly-technical Bluesky developers) to understand that either you have censorship by a central committee or you have real decentralization with any host being able to censor whatever they want. Any claims to the contrary are likely to come from either clueless or malicious actors and eventually end in the first situation.
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Scurvydog 8 months ago
Perfectly put. More than likely there will always be censorship. To presume any platform fixes that is foolishness.
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๐š๐šข๐šŠ๐š— ryan@spatia-arcana.com 8 months ago
I don't think Nostr was ever intended to have no censorship at all, but to be censorship resistant. I run a relay, and I limit notes it stores to people in my web of trust. Is that censorship? If someone mutes another user so they don't see their notes, is that censorship? Or is choosing what you see and broadcast actually part of your own freedom of speech? I'm pretty confident I can get my notes out amidst any circumstance. - I subscribe to a couple good paid relays. - I run my own relay on a VPS. - If all those fail, or refuse to host my notes, I have a relay ready to go on my home PC that I can start in an instant. - If that fails I have a relay setup on my phone, connecting over tor, that I can turn on. I don't know of any other protocol that gives me those kinds of options.
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