Hello world.
I created this Nostr account because a total of 6 of my recent posts on the ongoing Gaza genocide got deleted on Instagram and Facebook combined, a genocide that my government as well as Meta is complicit in. As I write this, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has the Palestinian death toll at 28,091.
In addition to the outright deletions, my Instagram account is currently shadow-banned beyond recognition, to the point where it's essentially dead. This is unnerving because I still need it for professional promotion. My Facebook account on the other hand I simply deleted. Facebook has become completely unacceptable already before the recent war.
A decentralized social network like Nostr with immutable posts comes with its own set of challenges, though. Immutable means you're uncensorable, but it also means you can't delete your own posts or account. So if your fascist government decides they want to persecute you for stuff you said on the internet, you're stuck with your posts for good.
The Nostr protocol is designed to support post deletion I believe, but I couldn't figure it out yet. It's tricky because posts are mirrored across several servers across the internet to evade censorship and you need to get posts deleted on all of them at once. I hope this will be possible in the future.
In the meantime, the Fediverse (like Mastodon) may be a good compromise between consorship-resistance through immutability and decentralization, as Mastodon posts aren't immutable, and you can move your account to a different server outside of your government's jurisdiction while taking your followers with you.
Nonetheless, Nostr is very interesting, even if only for the post length 🤪
yanone / Yanone
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2023-12-24 09:38:57
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