My take is it's pretty much the same as what would happen to Nostr there, if Nostr weren't so small.
Right now these "banned" bluesky accounts can be accessed in Turkey by at least 3 or 4 other bluesky clients (atproto clients), including iOS, Android and web. And probably several more. But that's because the Turkish government sees these other clients as inconsequential.
The key point is governments these days are far more tech-savvy than they used to be.
Nostr would be no more resistant to the censoring efforts of a tech-savvy government than atproto, or farcaster, or pubky, or keet, or anything else provided it were big enough. All would be trivially easy for that government to make useless for the majority of its population. In a week.
When talking of censorship resistance it's only really meaningful if talking about resistance to in-house censorship. To in-house moderation teams. Anything on the government side—that's a fever dream in 2025. If you're big enough or sensitive enough to be deemed necessary to censor then you're censored.
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2025-04-20 20:36:40
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