Oddbean

Nostr ain't uncensored, yet. I like Cyph3rp9nk, he's got great content. So this isn't an "attack", but a friendly philosophical debate over if Session messenger's DNS is worthwhile for censorship. He thinks it's not, and we only need Nostr & SimpleX w/ government domains. So to prove my point, I did a DNS lookup on Cyph3rp9nk's Nostr relays to find a bunch of pro-US government entities that can easily wipe his content off 1 phone call. Cloudflare, Inc. wss://relay.damus.io Cloudflare, Inc. wss://relay.primal.net Amazon.com, Inc. wss://nostr.mutinywallet.com/ Amazon.com, Inc. wss://relay.current.fyi Hetzner Online GmbH wss://nos.lol Hetzner Online GmbH wss://relay.nostr.band Hetzner Online GmbH wss://relay.nostr.bg The Constant Company, LLC (USA Vultr forced KYC) wss://purplepag.es MULTACOM CORPORATION (USA California Democrat HQ) wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social Now mine are not much better, so what's the answer? Mike Dilger of Gossip was telling me he'd eventuality integrate Tor relay support. But until that's widely adopted, Session is the king.

I don't know why you disregard using simpleX and nostr with tor onion addresses. SimpleX is totally usable, never notice any difference. Amethyst + orbot you notice some external images getting blocked from you but that's on people for using cloudflare.

Simplex does not need DNS, SMP servers can operate under Tor, and Nostr can also operate under Tor. Nostr however is not comparable to Session, Nostr is not private, it is a replacement protocol for social networks. As for why Simplex and not Session: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/blob/stable/docs/SIMPLEX.md#comparison-with-p2p-messaging-protocols Also, you can set up a session node (oxen)? do you know how much money it would cost you? I don't know now how much it cost but it was well over 10000 dollars for the amount of oxen tokens needed to make POS (I see that now 3000 dollars...you know... shitcoin), this is neither distributed nor decentralized. And given that it is supported by a shitcoin they have at 0 I don't think it is sustainable over time either. nostr:note1qqqqxmxch4c60ue6qay4f64rrnmxl395zhc0uxq4kvdzzx6vqqzs526ky6