If government wanted to take down Nostr it'd be done before lunchtime because >99% of message exchanges are mediated by half a dozen relays... and it's soon going to be half a dozen minus one.
Being dependant on a miniscule number of third-party operated relays to communicate with a network peer is just a bit silly really when you think about it. I guess a lot of people aren't able to visualise concepts this though, and simply fall back on what the group think.
Nostr and ecash fan bases are a consequence of mass formation psychosis.
Analogue Dog
npub103…g6vh8
2026-07-06 07:56:04 CEST
in reply to nevent1q…54hy
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