True, social media can't be decentralised... But Nostr is actually a group chat, and it is barely doing that well, but it can do it perfectly while maintaining decentralisation and it is clear that when Nostr Devs realise this dichotomy the choose censorship resistance.
For social media, you have centralized platforms, Bluesky is one of which, but they will keep removing all the decentralisation circus because they already have an uphill battle of network effects.
I never claimed that social media can be censorship resistant, I am just confused by this nonsense of compliant decentralisation... It is so absurd.
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I'd agree that compliant decentralisation makes no sense. The decentralised system itself has no awareness.
Compliance is just an attitude that humans using a decentralised system can decide to take or not take.
Burning wood is a pretty decentralised way to warm your home, some places allow it, others have bylaws that forbid it. The compliance issue is a separate matter from the physical properties of wood and wood stoves. Some people will respect those bylaws, others will take the chance and flout them. Nothing odd or absurd about that to me.
The way I see it is, every one of these social media protocols claiming to be decentralized or "free" will just become reduced to requiring Tor or something in order to avoid laws
