Not a fan of company behind pubkey but Carvhalo is correct that nostr is not censorship resistant in the way that many think it is. The sooner we admit it, the sooner we can work on a truly resistant model. I imagine that’s a combination of p2p and relays.

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I’d say relays is the big one, less so clients since we can vibe a client in a matter of minutes now but big clients def at risk
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Constant 1 month ago
Well, nothing is 'immune' to state compliance, that the whole thing about force/violence, its just a matter of political will the extend they can crank up that pressure. So that as an asside, 'Nostr' is just as censorship resistant as the internet itself
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Scoundrel 1 month ago
The darkweb is significantly better than the clearweb in terms of resisting political pressure.
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Scoundrel 1 month ago
Can't I just add more relays though?
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weev 1 month ago
follow me on this shit, I’m connecting by a tor router. Let me know if things look okay
Indeed, that’s one of the reasons we’re building Cordn the way we are, where nothing resides on relays, which are used merely as dumb pipes/ephemeral message buses. The actual storage happens where you can have control: the coordinator. I like how @Gzuuus framed it in their article: > Selection among uncontrolled infrastructures is not sovereignty over them. Nostr for identity and CVM for interaction already gets you close to what you’re describing, without heavy dependencies like DHTs or blockchains.
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τέχνη 1 month ago
Hmm I got “Error: failed to query identity from f2d326a0: No addressing information available” It says paste a Node ID to follow. Is that for sure your Node ID and not your public key ?
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weev 1 month ago
i just turned that on in the settings. let me know if this works now.
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weev 1 month ago
my node ID is a07107f91dc5a920de22a1fa08df5909995a2a621f927f4a42fbb23ce9d0b6e8
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τέχνη 1 month ago
Hmm not sure why it’s not working. We need the creator of this thing to start testing with people. Gotta dogfood it
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weev 1 month ago
says “failed to follow” when I follow you but no additional information
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τέχνη 1 month ago
I didn’t select to put mine on the DHT bc I didn’t set up tor yet