discussed the gossip model and how people would deal with the censorship of Alex Jones. I don't think I participated in the thread, being weary of the topic. Instead I have written a webpage stating my position so that in the future I can just point people at the webpage:quoting nevent1q…qczkPeople who do not support, do not care about or never heard about the "gossip model" -- which is basically the idea that clients should (mostly) automatically find people in wherever relays they are and fetch their notes from these relays -- here is a question for you:
What would happen if everybody is following Alex Jones on the 10 biggest relays, but they all collude to ban Alex Jones? Then Alex Jones starts publishing on a relatively tiny relay hosted in Colombiat. How can Nostr fulfill its censorship-resistant promises in this situation? Would all of his millions of Nostr followers have to manually open their settings and add his new relay address?
https://mikedilger.com/gossip-model/