Oddbean new post about login | logout When platforms start to fall, protocols will remain. you can’t arrest email, http, or nostr. X, telegram, rumble, *can’t* have free speech in a world where governments can compel to censor by threat of imprisonment. The world may realize they need nostr sooner than they thought. https://image.nostr.build/1a5d6409a896956801ef8bee6720600b91bf92d7893b9ae844eb88e5d2c0f495.jpg
He was arrested for not moderating (censoring) enough his service. We need censorship-resistant tech, with no-one to be arrested. #Bitcoin #nostr
Privacy is very likely to be outlawed in the EU (and the US).
What will they do? Arrest everyone using Signal, Telegram, SimpleX, Briar, Matrix, Tor, nostr? It's like saying SSL/TLS encryption for email is illegal. How to procreed? For Google, Microsoft, Proton to remove encryption? Arrest Mozilla Thunderbird, K9-mail, Roundcube devs? Delete all source codes? Same as when holding gold was forbidden, some surrender, some hide it and fight for their freedom. We must avoid all weak spot, be strong togheter, fight for our rights. #dencentralized #FOSS #fightforfreedom
Cant they arrest the largest relays too?
yeah, but autopilot/outbox model fixes this. they can't arrest everyone running a nostr server. well they could try I guess, but then people would just start running them as tor hidden services
What if e.g. running an unmoderated #Nostr relay is criminalized?
It still amazes me that people assume that governments will play by the rules. Even after everything that happened since 2019. They will end nostr if they want to. Same with Bitcoin. At least make it illegal in most of the Western countries
Ty it’s happening everywhere and the people who say anything online what happens to them? I know what happens to them and none of us are protected anywhere for our free speech on social media. Government has no laws that protect the people from them.
How secure are DMs on Nostr?
we have nip-04 which are end-to-end encrypted but leak metadata. We have a newer spec (nip17) which hide metadata and are also end-to-end encrypted. We are working on a new group encryption spec that is efficient for large groups but its experimental.
I recommend using @0xchat for DMs. I just started using it. It doesn’t let you respond with the deprecated nip-04 spec which leaks metadata. Also check out @keychat which uses the signal protocol. You can’t use your existing nsec with keychat though so it’s a little harder to get the conversations started, but better for privacy.
That said, damus is probably our best relay and our best client. Loss of damus would leave a large gaping hole in nostr. nostr:note1pqeszsvcvtyu95ar22lzn5qkejaacc6dnaswwjzq3ykc25jfazrs6ksau5
Any centralized platform operating at scale runs on borrowed time. They're all in the crosshairs now. nostr:note1pqeszsvcvtyu95ar22lzn5qkejaacc6dnaswwjzq3ykc25jfazrs6ksau5
Look at the state of the world now. The UK is a disaster over memes. The whole 🌎 needs #Nostr for freedom of speech. #God #Trump #Prayer #USA 🇺🇲 #BTC #Zap⚡ #Nostr #JulianAssangeIsFree 🔥 nostr:nevent1qqsqsvcpgxvx9jwz6w34903f6qtvew7uvdxe7c88fpqgjtv92fy73pcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsygp7lkhtk8vfy04an8y70t8rksv54dz4zt3tu7wpkltgmyjrurfxsypsgqqqqqqseccz0f
We need Nostr more than ever! looking forward to a world where all my groups chats are on end to end encrypted Nostr groups instead of clear text telegram groups nostr:nevent1qqsqsvcpgxvx9jwz6w34903f6qtvew7uvdxe7c88fpqgjtv92fy73pcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsraldwhvwcjgltmxwfu7kw8dqef2692yhzheuurd7k3kfy8cxjdqgrqsqqqqqpat6du8
Anything that uses the Internet can be blocked. https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/12bc801/almost_every_polular_relay_gets_banned_in_china/
Bullshit, HTTP and email is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to censorship and state action. WTF?
How so?
for starters http and email are not encrypted at standard which means its entirely vulnerable to whatever you feed to it at the base level, so to assert that just having one of these protocols means we are somehow decentralized and free of censorship is an absolutely absurd notion
It’s wild to me that this happened
