rossbates on Nostr: Some want a censorship resistant Twitter replacement. Others want a dissident ...
Some want a censorship resistant Twitter replacement. Others want a dissident communication network.
Censorship resistance requires discoverability and reach. Dissident communication requires obscurity.
The protocol design can't fully optimize for both.
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