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The whole reason I was excited about Nostr was the censorship resistance but if the relays choose who gets to authenticate you’re back to square one (well, whichever square Mastodon is).

Also, it seems naive to think that a ban on blocklists in the spec will keep real free humans from doing exactly as they’ve done on email, Mastodon etc and share block lists.

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I've only read a little about Nostr, but I think the difference is that with Nostr you own your own identity, so if a relay bans you you can just switch to a different relay and continue as you were with no significant disruption.

You're probably right about shared blacklists eventually becoming a thing though.

The AUTH Nostr Implementation Possibility is not mandatory. You can choose to use it or not, it's not all or nothing. Every single NIP except for NIP-01 is optional.

I wonder what the XMPP camp is up to these days

I sense there was probably some irony in your post. Nevertheless, I'll bite :)

The "XMPP camp" is doing well and very busy: https://xmpp.org/newsletter/

We're lacking a nostr bridge if anyone wants to work on that...

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