weev on Nostr: “It is open source and you can run your own” does not make it not censorious — ...
“It is open source and you can run your own” does not make it not censorious — Mastodon is open source and you can run your own, and it is a hotbed of censorship. “Just run your own social media service!” is the exact echo of the most censorious people on earth. Most clients outside Primal have multiple relays by default, most or all of which they do not control. This includes Amethyst, Damus, Wisp, etc. If chooses Damus to block me on their relay, most people are still going to see my content because I am publishing to the other relays. Also most people can, via the relay hints provided by nevents when you quote a post, fetch my content from relays I post to even if you do not directly follow me or subscribe to my relay. If Primus blocks me from their caching server’s algorithmic feed, then I am silently erased and you will never see my content again. The only way this is different from Twitter is because people can take their nsecs elsewhere, but they provide no notice to users or opportunity for transparency as to what content they have removed. It is not just “caching the content from the relay” btw, it is selecting who gets seen at all in an editorialized fashion. And they have been caught not only censoring likes, but censoring entirely the display of basic post content in their algorithmic relay feed.
That’s not censorship.. Nostr by nature of its decentralisation, will always have slightly different number of likes and comments depending on which relays you connect to.
As far as I know, primal (nprofile…kclk) caching server does exactly that: caches the data from the relays. It is open source and also you can run your own, as well as connect to different relays, in the Primal settings.
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2026-04-29 12:16:41 UTCEvent JSON
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