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Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant

These results are skewed now by the fact that the two notes got rebroadcasted to multiple relays after some time, but the fundamental point remains. Some people implied in the comments, with an air of obviousness, that publishing the note to “more relays” should have predictably resulted in more replies, which, again, shouldn’t be the case if Nostr is really censorship-resistant. Peter Todd is right that if the way Nostr works is that you just subscribe to a small set of relays and expect to get everything from them then it tends to get very centralized very fast, and this is the reality today.

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