M. Dilger on Nostr: Nostr provides censorship resistance via replication. You use multiple relays and ...

Nostr provides censorship resistance via replication. You use multiple relays and hope they don't all ban you at once. But there is no way we can force a relay to not censor.

Relay operators will censor, almost all of them will remove spammy posts and CSAM.

I have never censored anyone and I don't plan to (because I don't operate a relay that needs it given it is not public access). But I develop the chorus relay and I'm writing the moderation code, and so I thought it would be useful to get community feedback on what that 'banning' process looks like. Sending the banned person a notification seems right to me, including a reason, and a way to download their data.