How it started... as a censorship resistant notes and stuff
https://npub1lxktpvp5cnq3wl5ctu2x88e30mc0ahh8v47qvzc5dmneqqjrzlkqpm5xlc.blossom.band/e0c1d393d23a916cadec2a7babb68be123157420b1e37f7a1ead45...
So it's going in the exact way it's started, everyone being free to do about whatever they fuck they want to.
Did you even read the early specification? If not, why not?
It's been clear from day 0 that both clients and relays can do what they want.
What matters is that users can also do what they want.
If a client does something you don't want it to, why would you ever use that client?
Everyone can develop a client.
If you are a programmer, write your own fucking client. If you are not a programmer, use a client that does exactly what you want it to.
On a centralized platform, say Facebook or Twitter, the user is a slave to the platform owner. You can't pick your server, there is one server. You can hardly modify the client and doing so will likely breach some TOS agreement.
Nostr is described by many as "not a platform", but it is one ecosystem in the same way each big centralized platform is.
You can pick whatever relays you want and have your client interact with them however you want.
What you never had a right to do, on Nostr or anywhere else, is get people that don't want to read your stuff read your stuff. People can avoid you if they think you aren't worthy of their time.
Censorship hamper communication that is desired by the two participants.
If you write something on X and I want to read it, and you want me to read it, but it offends Elon Musks sweet fragile tiny little fefes, Elon Musk can ban that post.
If you write something on Nostr and I want to read it, I can read it.
The only scenario where a client will hide it from me is one where I use that client because I don't give a shit what you have to say and I actually don't want to read it.
Unless I'm retarded to the fucking point of using a client that acts against my interests. But no protocol solves the issue of morons acting against their own interests.
Did you even read the early specification? If not, why not?
It's been clear from day 0 that both clients and relays can do what they want.
What matters is that users can also do what they want.
If a client does something you don't want it to, why would you ever use that client?
Everyone can develop a client.
If you are a programmer, write your own fucking client. If you are not a programmer, use a client that does exactly what you want it to.
On a centralized platform, say Facebook or Twitter, the user is a slave to the platform owner. You can't pick your server, there is one server. You can hardly modify the client and doing so will likely breach some TOS agreement.
Nostr is described by many as "not a platform", but it is one ecosystem in the same way each big centralized platform is.
You can pick whatever relays you want and have your client interact with them however you want.
What you never had a right to do, on Nostr or anywhere else, is get people that don't want to read your stuff read your stuff. People can avoid you if they think you aren't worthy of their time.
Censorship hamper communication that is desired by the two participants.
If you write something on X and I want to read it, and you want me to read it, but it offends Elon Musks sweet fragile tiny little fefes, Elon Musk can ban that post.
If you write something on Nostr and I want to read it, I can read it.
The only scenario where a client will hide it from me is one where I use that client because I don't give a shit what you have to say and I actually don't want to read it.
Unless I'm retarded to the fucking point of using a client that acts against my interests. But no protocol solves the issue of morons acting against their own interests.