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Celata · 2w
Censorship: Nostr is designed to work with (doesn't scale beyond) only a handful of relays and nearly the entire community only uses a small well-known number. So just control them and nobody ever see...
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Fair, but Nostr has those things because people want to use them.

Secure Scuttlebutt prioritised OPSEC over performance and discoverability.

But people want those things, so Nostr grew more and faster than SSB.

Nostr can be used in a secure manner if desired, but yes its not the default.
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Celata · 2w
People will happily throw away all their security for a little convenience. This has been shown time and time again. Many of the issues are to do with scalability baked into the design of Nostr and cannot be fixed. Fundamental to it is that it wasn't designed as a decentralized p2p network but as a...