My state of Nostr

I listened today to the Nostrovia podcast with Stewart Mackenzie about Named Data Networking and I agree that because Nostr is still relying on the TCP/IP stack that in and of itself can be easily censored by a nation state. ( so it is not very resistant in that way) I would like to add that the censorship resistant is more of a having no extra central middel men corporation and an idea that as long as some parts of the network are open and relaying there will always be an option for decentralised communications and reseeding of the network. Together we can build multiple communication protocols making it more difficult to shut them all down so maybe some of the answer lies in multiple protocols ... however if they all rely on TCP/IP and DNS magic we'll always be in the same boat.

Maybe someday relays will operate on Named Data Networking but until that day.

This made me think of what Nostr than really is to me and here is the answer:

In the last months i've been talking to people from all over the world from China to Venezuela and some of these places still experience censorship, financial disruption that all have implications on people's daily lives. Nostr offers a great parring with lightning to create decentralised applications. View it as a free backend relay network to build structures that allow all elements of a normall application but without all the extra costs and overhead associated with it. This enables more users to participate and lower the adoption curve. Allowing all Nostriches to be able to experience equal opportunities. I'm definitely still making big plans for this protocol!