Relays are just web servers. If you run your own, no one knows it exists. If you use someone else's, it can censor you.
No one will run a scaled web server for you for free.
No government will allow a scaled web server that does not censor.
Nostr can never scale while preventing censorship.
bitcoinerrorlog / John Carvalho
npub13n…60svh
2025-07-12 03:00:07 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…n4q2
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