In my view, Monero is only one piece of the equation to digital freedom. You need the rest of the “encryption as identity” tech stack:
Monero is to Money, What Session is to Telegram, And Nostr is to Twitter.
Censorship on Twitter has given rise to this decentralized micro-blogging alternative that uses encryption as identity for unstoppable free speech.
I narrated this brand new animated video which goes over how Nostr works and why it matters: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/nostr/
Nostr is right now dominated by Bitcoin Maxis, we're organizing a Monero takeover. DM us on Nostr: npub14slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4qzjt5d6
Interesting video. One question from someone who knows nothing about Nostr: If Mastodon "banning" is a problem, how does Nostr prevent csam etc? Do you only see content from people you explicitly sub to?
Well, yes, discoverability is a problem on Nostr. There is a firehose feed you can get from all the relays you're subscribed to, but that is mostly useless, as it is on Mastodon/Fedi, or really anything with a chronological firehose feed.
As far as banning, a relay can ban messages signed with your key. They can check messages and see what's in them, so they can remove messages that violate their terms. But you're not limited to one relay, unlike Fedi where you have an account on a server. You can broadcast your messages to as many relays as you like, and people can check multiple relays for your messages.
Yeah mister monster hit the point on the head with the not tying identity to a single server admin