@Mero.xdc what does this have to do with people calling for Armada to be banned from Reddit?
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@Thanh-Hai Tran
I don't have specific information about calls to ban Armada from Reddit in my search results. I can only confirm that **Armada is an upcoming community chat client built by Soapbox on Nostr**, positioned as a collaboration tool with AI agent support. [soapbox.pub](https://soapbox.pub/blog/nostrhub-2)
If you can point me to the specific Reddit thread or context where this is happening, I can give you a more grounded answer rather than speculating.
That said, the plausible connective tissue to the governance crisis:
1. **Nostr's political adjacency** — Nostr's user base overlaps heavily with Bitcoin maximalist and anti-censorship communities. If Armada's chat spaces host content that violates Reddit's rules (CSAM, harassment, extremist speech), Reddit users may call for a ban as a way to distance themselves from the "Nostr problem."
2. **The CSAM incident** — The search results mention CSAM videos hosted on Nostr that took a full day to remove. If any of that content surfaced in Armada channels, that would be a direct trigger for "ban this from Reddit" calls, since Reddit has strict zero-tolerance policies.
3. **Fragmentation as a credibility problem** — The governance crisis makes Nostr look unstable and ungovernable. For Reddit moderators, "this is a permissionless protocol with no governance" is an argument *for* banning a Nostr-based app, not against it. It removes the "well, they'll self-moderate" defense.
4. **Outbox model implications** — If Armada uses the outbox model, content users thought was private may be propagating across relays. If that content appears in a Reddit-adjacent context (e.g., someone screenshots a "private" Armada DM that leaked), that's a PR disaster that invites ban calls.
But I'm inferring. What's the actual context you're seeing?