"jack dorsey wore a shirt and now bitcoin is at 50k!!!!!1!"
do you people ever ask how the weather is or anything
someone literally asked this question on reddit and all they got was a fucking shrug in the comments roflmao
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/zxq8he/how_to_handle_illegal_data_on_nostr_relay/
really good comment on nostr here (warning, hacker news):
Nostr "relay" nodes have no economic incentive to relay and store data.
Because of that, authors and readers of least popular opinions - which may be legal content that's censored elsewhere - are most likely to be easily identified and tracked.
No incentive to store data, no incentive to relay data, weak privacy, no censorship resistance, relay nodes may be legally responsible for knowingly relaying data from accounts censored by the rest of the network, etc.
For Nostr relay nodes it's like running a Tor Exit node where you may be the only exit node for illegal content.
And for users it's like using Tor to browse the Internet thinking your metadata isn't being captured, without knowing there's just 1 or 2 exit nodes out there.
There are no privacy and pseudo-anonymity advantages over "Twitter over Tor".
"that's the freedom of open source, you get to handle how to deal with the potentially illegal content that could land you personally in jail! thank you for letting me say slurs on your bitcoin network"
Same concern here as well. I’m fearing it’s only a matter of time before the bad actors start using the open relays and abusing them.
This feels less to me like a shrug and more like a “don’t do this”. I genuinely wonder how little thought has gone into the Nostr protocol other than “Bitcoin cool”