waxwing on Nostr: It seems like the main ways nostr could help is: 1/ public key crypto is a "first ...

It seems like the main ways nostr could help is: 1/ public key crypto is a "first class citizen" (the only citizen, i guess) in its architecture, meaning you only need your private key to identify yourself, ever (not giving ID to a company). This is not unique to nostr; it also has significant practical cons as well as pros, but, it is an answer to your Q. 2/ relays being distributed in theory helps with censorship resistance, but the person under a terror regime doesn't need censorship resistance as much, they mostly need disconnection of nym and IRL.

Of these, 2/ to me is not really very significant, if at all. the fediverse which has existed for years works the same way. as for 1/ , I think the fediverse should be able to do the same just fine, but, it didn't, and it let server owners essentially "own" accounts which was a disastrous error.