I'm genuinely curious to understand more about your issues with Nostr - especially the claim that it can be censored - but your posts on this haven't felt constructive, at least to me. The essence is "this place sucks and that's why you won't attract great people like me," which doesn't tend to lead to productive conversations. You're eliciting those childish responses and then mocking them.

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Big Bad John 6 months ago
I can't deliver a knowledge base every time I want to discuss protocol design, so I make efforts to speak in understandable abstractions that touch the soft spots. I have attempted to share feedback and designs with nostr for years. I have known fiatjaf since before nostr existed. Aside from talking to fiatjaf himself, that experience has been horrendous. Maybe you can forgive me if my candor is too abrasive or short. Anyway, it's censorable because the relay model is no different than the website model in practice. At scale it requires permission, and nostr has no solution for discovery once permission is revoked. Quite simple, but undermines the entire project. We discovered a better way, and that makes it really difficult to tolerate nostr tribalism. I could go on, about other design flaws, but that is at least one answer for you!
Like I said before I'm new and not a highly technical user. You gotta make it easier than that if you want to "out compete" nostr It took me a couple days to figure nostr out. In my opinion user friendliness is the biggest issue. Most people aren't interested in learning how things work just to use them