We need actual Nostr applications that aren’t twitter clones, or hybrids between Twitter and Reddit. Amethyst app is essentially just that, a partial hybrid between Twitter and Reddit, it does have communities but it lacks plenty of other features necessary for the forum experience.

Federation is just a tool to make sanitized spaces but claim that they aren’t censoring anyone, when they in fact are. They’re perfect for creating sanitized leftist “utopian” spaces, and atrocious for freedom.

The idea of Nostr with full decentralization is a good one, the only problem though is that currently it’s a Twitter type format and even though it added communities it still doesn’t have any kind of frontend to access it like a forum, the ones that do are just hacks using hashtags as communites, which they are not, hashtags aren’t communities and they aren’t like communities. We need something equivalent to Lemmy but for Nostr.

I did too, multiple times. Tor is very effective at breaking whatever systems they use for ban evasion detection. Though after the 17th account I didn’t return because Reddit expects people to talk like a cuck and kiss up to troons, even though they’re insane.

Lemmy wasn’t made for decentralization, anyone who says that is a liar, it was made for tyrants to create their own sanitized space for members of their cults to get together.

Still though it’s the best we have until Nostr officially has widespread support for Communities and has a Decent Reddit style frontend. At the current time it isn’t really viable due to the fact it’s currently a Twitter clone that doesn’t facilitate this kind of discussion thread content.

Also No, Hashtags aren’t communities, they are the equivalent of post or comment flairs and trying to use them as a community gives a very messy and cluttered feeling.

Which is why it’s not surprising at all why people are attacking their server (both metaphorically, and literally with DDoS attacks).