That’s a very good point.
And I agree with you in general.
That being said…
1. It doesn’t really answer why (one of) the biggest increases in BlueSky user growth happened when X was banned in Brazil (not sure wtf explain that tbh 😂).
2. I still don’t think “censorship resistance” is an appealing enough narrative to create a meaningful enough network effect. That doesn’t mean censorship resistance shouldn’t be “baked into” Nostr as a standard (IMO that’s SUPER important), but I don’t think it’s going to appeal to a lot of people outside of whoever is mostly already here & gets it.
I think we need to Trojan horse it into larger audiences via other means.
Or who knows - maybe we shouldn’t even talk about it at all?
I’m not sure what the exact solution is. Still experimenting
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2025-03-16 16:14:02
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