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Big Bad John 5 months ago
I know that is what Nostr people think, but it is not sufficient. Yes, you should keep copies of your data, this is true of any data you care about in any use case, everywhere. That doesn't give you a way to be censorship resistant on the web, social media, search, etc. Your backups just ensure you can try again, which was true before Nostr. But 99% of people don't want to run a server, and 99% of popular people wouldn't be able to scale their personal server to be able to serve many people efficiently.

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hold up there buddy, you are wrong. The internet already was censorship resistant, correct, but the issue is marginalization due to a nuked social graph. Nostr fixes this because for the most part the thing you are ''trying again'' is getting the data hosted, you don't have to '''try again'' to (re-)build your audience and to the extend you do it your starting position is way better; in first instance because your audience does not have to switch apps and in second instance because outbox (of which implementation lacks severely at this moment in time). View quoted note → The same logic is why we bother with Blossom, because it gives us a fighting chance of healing links, instead of re-uploading and creating a whole different link. As for ''Nostr cannot scale for the same reason Bitcoin can't - only much, much worse. For Nostr to work in a censorship-resistant way, everyone has to have a copy of all the data of all the users.'' I frankly don't even understand how you reach such conclusions, it is puzzling and gives me a headache.... It just seems the whole paradigm of things being event-centric and servers being trivialized (in regards to what server) due to tamperproofing is just completely lost on you...wait....is that why you are interested in Pubky, you simply dont get Nostr?