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Ok. Thanks. I didn't mean "a certain 3" but I see how it could be taken that way.
But again same in nostr, you don't need to use purplepag.es to get started. From any relay you can discover many others and then find people's relay lists scattered about. It is a self-healing mesh too. Uglier and less certain, but not on a different order of censorability. Unless you are using primal (so I hear, I don't use it).
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Yes everything can be anything if you try hard enough. You can even search Google to find the newest incarnation of your favorite pirating index after the previous one gets taken down. Hell you can download HOST.txt from your friends by sms.
But at some level of generosity technical discussions become too unserious
Not only is Nostr relays are orders of magnitudes fewer, and less time tested. and dns dependent. They are also not cheap to run AND have a conflict of interest since they double as service providers
This is the Mastodon and even Email fault, where the service providers can boycott and censor other providers.
But Mainline is cheap, extremely redundant and have no interest whatsoever in what is published on it. They don't compete with the services that are published on it.
This is significant in my opinion, you can't dismiss all of this merely as difference of degree... at some point it becomes difference in kind.
