Oddbean

Tales from the Land of Freedom and Bitcoin: For the third time in a matter of months, El Salvador censored Telegram yesterday, preventing access to the app on all five of its national mobile networks. The event “ accidentally ” coincided with Independence celebrations, and on the very day when anti-government demonstrations were taking place in the capital San Salvador. Organizers were using the messaging app to coordinate participants. This year, government censorship for Telegram in El Salvador had already been triggered twice, on the day of the President's inauguration and in July, to crack down on the Telegram group of CiberinteligentiaSV hackers, who have been very active in exposing alleged illicit and corrupt practices of the Salvadoran administration. But hey, Buky on X guaranteed that in El Salvador “you won't be arrested, censored (...) for exercising your right to free speech.” Why should we worry? #nostr fixes this Sources: - https://infodemia.com.sv/dos-observatorios-digitales-reportan-bloqueo-de-telegram-en-el-salvador - https://x.com/netblocks/status/1835290491094483100 - https://x.com/OpenObservatory/status/1835360393906074078 https://m.primal.net/KrwU.jpg

I don’t know if they have or haven’t. But I’m not impressed with 0xChat. Anytime I message via it, people on the other end usually aren’t able to see the message and therefore the conversation is truncated. Damus (iOS) and Primal have given me the most reliable conversations thus far. I keep hearing about SimpleX (I think that’s what it is called) I might give that a try. But for now, conversations are too important to me to not have a reliable client to facilitate them What has been your experience with 0xChat?

People on the other end will only see your message if they are using a client that supports nip-11 DMs and have set up inbox relays. This problem is solved by getting everyone to start using @0xchat.

I’ve seen someone zap an anonymous DM which is pointless. Anyone can figure out who sent the zap cause you can clearly see who’s talking to each other in the DM. Anon zapping a public note is more private than sending an anon zap on a nip-04 DM.

Only clients such as Amethyst, Coracle, Nostrmo, etc., that support NIP-17 DMs, can receive messages sent from 0xChat. Also we recommend using NIP-17 DMs instead of NIP-04 DMs, as NIP-17 helps hide your metadata, enhancing your privacy.