If you build censorship-resistant tools, first, thank you, and second, maybe you'll be interested in some actual censorship first-hand experience.

In Russia, they've gone mad in fighting against VPNs. On my home connection, basically half of the internet is restricted to something like 16KB upload or download, then the connection is terminated. Popular facilities like cloudflare or AWS suffer first, against any logic of collateral damage. Obscure LN hostings usually fare better.

Today I've published my first repo (tclnostr) with ngit, using my VPN, after several unsuccessful attempts to do it directly via my home network. I expected ngit to take HTTPS_PROXY from my env (which points to the tunnel to normal internet), but it did not happen.

If you build censorship-resistant tools, consider supporting proxies from environment, or some other way to specify an outbound SOCKS5 or CONNECT proxy. For me, there is not always a default route that works, but there is always some tunnel.

Consider openssh: it ignores the environment, which is a minor inconvenience, but with its ProxyCommand I can connect via any tunnel, thanks to socat (and netcat).

There are a few lightning-aware services that I use for exactly this reason. They are fine, but I'd probably never hear of them if they didn't accept LN payments.

And there is https://kagi.com, a search engine that works fine for me for a couple of years, which I would use even if they required a credit card. But fortunately, they also accept LN — not bragging about it anywhere, so you just discover it when you're about to pay for the first time. Balance topped up by LN can be also transferred to prepaid API/MCP credits.

Nostr support for TCL: we did this together. https://github.com/akovalenko/tclnostr

Amethyst by @Vitor Pamplona is a great nostr client.

But what it does not give you (or I just fail to find it) is the right to rename your contact. If someone in the DM has no profile at all, he will forever be an npub***, even if I'd like to see him as "myserver monitoring script".

In the beginning of Nostr, AFAIR, there was an idea of users giving "pet names" to other users, with a way to represent things like "@fiatjaf believes that this profile is @akovalenko". Would be great by starting with one-level contact renaming, at least.