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 Not always, but censorship resistance should include accessibility for both spammers and people who want to block spammers

Every nostr client web app seems to use JavaScript and stuff to function on-device and take load off the server backend, so when I have the nprofile link, every client could by default load every post a spam bot has ever made if it has its own relay for the web app to connect to. That would be censorship-resistant 

Instead, even if it's a regular person instead of a bot, seeing all their posts might not work reliably across all apps. That's not censorship resistant  
 I think that’s just not reliable. That’s a whole different issue than censorship resistance. 
 Nostr is censorship resistant because you can run your own relay and run your own client. If a relay or a client bans you, you're not gone or banned. You just pivot and you're back in business with little to zero downtime. 
 I don't see that as censorship resistant. Internet infrastructure the public paid for doesn't serve the public and telling members of the public they're on their own fixing it isn't magically an improvement. Nostr however has the potential in the future to bring infrastructure back to where it was at its peak and beyond, that will be censorship resistance  
 Didn’t see it being censorship resistant by being able to run a private server. 

Or it isn’t a network. Just more centralized easily targeted by agencies tcp/ip. 
 Flexible Fees and proof of work are the only true battle tested technologies against censorship. 

This websocket solutions (#nostr) looks like more #woke solutions. 

Benevolent dictatorship like Ethereum can work or not but has nothing to do with decentralization.