Nuh on Nostr: This can and will (if worth it at all) happen to any Pubky indexers or Nostr relays ...
This can and will (if worth it at all) happen to any Pubky indexers or Nostr relays that capture majority of eye balls. And when they comply, because they must, it will be effectively the same as shadow banning.
Play search engine games, win censorship prize.
If you don't want to deal with censorship, don't get big, and don't work on problems that requires big servers to solve them, or build a blockchain and make each post cost $20.
There sincerely no third options.
So Bluesky has just banned some guy exclusively on Turkey only because the Turkish government asked.
(from https://x.com/aliskorkut/status/1912191854939943362, this is the profile: https://bsky.app/profile/carekavga.bsky.social)
Published at
2025-04-16 16:54:06Event JSON
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