You are describing the entire web, not Nostr alone.
There is nothing in Nostr's design that makes it more resilient than the web, aside from using keys as identities.
The rest is exactly the same.
You put your data on web servers and hope other people can access and share it.
Relays can censor you, DNS can censor you. Apps can censor you.
So, yes, the web is fully open, and if you host everything yourself, you do have more control.
But Nostr didnt provide that, DNS did. And if you need any other computer on the web to help you find or distribute data, you become censorable again.
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When you boost/quote yourself, that's when you know nobody's listening.
Big Bad John
You are describing the entire web, not Nostr alone.
There is nothing in Nostr's design that makes it more resilient than the web, aside from using keys as identities.
The rest is exactly the same.
You put your data on web servers and hope other people can access and share it.
Relays can censor you, DNS can censor you. Apps can censor you.
So, yes, the web is fully open, and if you host everything yourself, you do have more control.
But Nostr didnt provide that, DNS did. And if you need any other computer on the web to help you find or distribute data, you become censorable again.
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No one relay can censor me. There isn't any central party, there isn't any special relay.
Client developers and relay operators are just random asses with a computer. Anyone can use as many relays as they like and whatever app lets them read what they want to (or develop their own).
This is in contrast with mainstream social media. If I go on Twitter and write "cisgender", Elon Musk can shadowban me. If I get on Nostr and say something any specific person you can name doesn't like, none of them, individually, can censor me.
Of course if the whole world agrees to censor me I will be censored.
Using Nostr doesn't make you depend on any specific computer owned by someone else, except those which we'd be using regardless of Nostr (DNS servers, ISPs and so on).
Fiatjaf cannot censor me as his own individual choice. The operator of any specific relay cannot censor me, because I don't depend on any specific relay and no relay plays a central role.
