Changing between different relays and web apps didn't help on my shadow banned account. I suddenly stopped being able to send and receive messages and my posts became very rare to actually see loading anywhere after being posted.

I don't feel like finding my account from a year ago and my old screenshots and stuff right now, and it has gotten better in the past year, so with my laziness and your hard work you're about to get some weaker more recent examples of it being hard to get text delivering consistently via nostr.

1. Yesterday I made a long form post and in Primal it linked to a Highlighter page that said "event not found" - so nevent link is not up to par with plain old DNS based link to habla.news which habla.news specifically told me not to use 

note1dfv2ayrau90ztv4peuu6jmy8k2mwd56aeya4vnn9w6373guvfhnspw0u30

2. The other day I made a post about a crazy strong WiFi network from a new npub for a bit of anonymity (breaking that now for this discussion) and it didn't show up in search results except from the app I posted it from when I wanted to go back from another new npub to reply with additional details. It now shows up in nostr.band just fine

And a third example I just noticed - my njump.me page has out of date posts 

I'm often paranoid about being targeted but I don't think these examples are me being targeted like I felt a year ago. Some of it could be me messing up my relays on my own end and there's probably work being done by people other than me to fix it. Slowly. But this tech still hasn't reversed the decay of free speech quite yet  

 Thanks for the examples. This sounds like relay issues and client issues. Not censorship. Are you using the same relays on these clients and these npubs? Your different npubs need to have the same relays to communicate unless the client is using an Outbox model - many do not yet. I don't think Primal renders nevent or naddr events yet. Many clients don't. 

 Last time I configured relays I set nos.lol as my main one, and that one has seemed functional enough for now, so I haven't changed my settings, but I have been jumping around between different web apps on an old phone and not checking how each web app handles relays. I see it as real-world stress-testing.

I should put it like this, what I see with nostr is some censorship resistance, and a lot of potential for censorship resistance, but not enough censorship resistance.

People hype nostr's censorship resistance up like it's already hit one of these milestones when it hasn't yet:

* Clearly matching the functionality of state of the art electronic communications 
* Clearly surpassing the rest, becoming the new state of the art in and of itself 
* Pushing the state of the art back to where it was at the peak of human technology, like when Aaron Swartz was still alive at least
* Surpassing the most freedom of speech humans have ever had 

 Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. That's the problem here, obviously...