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Moved | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 No, it’s actually not what you probably think. All verification does here is make you searchable by a unique @ rather than your key.

The way relays work, it’s not that big a deal unless a bunch of them censor you, either.
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Quentel | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It seems like they'll take control of the relays if it ever catches on. I looked into it very briefly when everyone was first talking about it, so there's probably things I'm not up to speed on. 

If censored, another key-pair could be locally generated, but that would be a start from zero every time. Sure, it's doable... but it would be impossible to build any momentum if ever desired.

Hopefully they can work out the kinks. The relays look to be a much larger issue when compared to the client.
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Moved | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Who is “they?”

No one is going to take over every relay, that doesn’t make sense.
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Moved | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 A couple of small ones, yeah. It didn't matter. Clients are the bottleneck here. It's not like Fedi.