@silverpill

> In practice the network is smaller and easier to disrupt, that's what my post was about.

But presumably this is just a factor of the smaller popularity? Is there a technical reason Nostr couldn't have as many relays as Fedi has nodes?

> If those people don't want to interact with you, I don't see any problem

I think about 99.999% (literally) of those people have never heard of me, and will never hear of me on the Fediverse, since I've been pre-emptively blocked for them by their admins.

Also, in almost all cases, even the admin blocking me doesn't do so because he or she heard of me, let alone has ever actually seen a post by me. Rather, the block is implemented by importing pre-made block lists.

These block lists include massive numbers of people, who might be associated with wrongthink in some way, because at some point the Fedi node they're on was flagged by someone and put on such a list. There is no oversight of this process, or transparency about the reasons. It's just a tiny minority of people who are trusted blindly as authorities on what people you should and shouldn't interact with. And they successfully split the entire Fediverse in two halves (or even more pieces) that can't interact.

This is all done "for the safety" of their users, even though it doesn't in any way prevent the "bad people" from seeing those users; it merely silences them on Fedi.

It really is just straight up authoritarian censorship, pretty much as bad as on centralised platforms like Twitter and Facebook.