[dmantis]

Tor and I2P is a better fit. Nostr is very weird. It sells itself as decentralized, but basically all frontends provide same several relays.

When those relays get subpoenas and remove your resource, you're done. You can use some unknown relays to publish, but who's gonna use them as clients outside of the defaults? It's effectively designed for shadowbans.

[sanskritical]

Many clients automatically seek, or prompt an action in 1 click to retrieve content from additional relays that a Nostr pubkey announces if said content is referenced but not available on already subscribed relays. As a publisher, you announce what relays you are currently publishing to in your identity metadata. So even if you don't specifically subscribe to a smaller relay, you can still access the content on it.

Tor and I2P are great technologies. ZLibrary, for example, runs an excellent Tor hidden service and it is usually the most reliable way to access news from the site. However, this did not remain true for a while when two of the operators were arrested. Tor and I2P require you to have infrastructure online. The point of "check Wikipedia for news" is that you can have something persist even if you do not have your servers online. Nostr is the best technology available in this category.

[dmantis]

Where does the nostr pubkey announce it? Let's say you are banned from main default relays. Is there any side channel?

[hypeatei]

Tor, sure. i2p requires some proxy config in your browser and you need to run a service in the background explicitly. I wish they'd release a dedicated client like Tor does.

[heavyset_go]

Both require daemons that offer SOCKS (other other protocols) proxies for browsers to route through.

If you're talking about the Tor Browser bundle, I2P has this: https://geti2p.net/en/download/easyinstall

[yapyap]

Pretty sure the whole concept of i2p is that every user also contributes to the network, which is why the config

[FuriouslyAdrift]

There's always Freenet...

[flipped]

Freenet is promising but it's not even fully done. Experimental stage. I am also skeptic of their more usage of LLM generated code these days.