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No. When you push a post on nostr you push it to multiple relays at the same time. And when you read other's post you request for their content from multiple relays. For example I post the following controversial topic
And to the following relays,
User WiggleSoft is following me and listens to relay a and c and g.
Relay c decides they don't agree with my take on puberty blockers and think it should be given like skittles to 11 year olds. They think that science journal is fascist. They block me on relay c.
WiggleSoft ask for my post from relay a and c. Relay c returns nothing because they hate me. relay a does not care.
Me and wigleSoft continue our conversation on relay a like nothing ever happened.
relay c does not own my identity. They can not tell other users that they are not allowed to read my content.
That is all nostr is.
It takes identify management away from admins so you can use multiple backends for the same user.
It makes it more like everyone is running on their own instance.
I think to put my answer more simply, yes nostr is still more censorship resistant. Because lets say lemmy.world bans your hypothetical single user instance.
Now everyone on lemmy.world is banned from reading your content.
In nostr lemmy.world the client cannot stop it's users from requesting your content from other relays.
They do not have the power to block thousands of users from accessing your content.
Perhaps you've just read my other reply. As I see a upvote. But the answer to this question is that most people cannot run their own instances. So most people have accounts on someone else's instance. that instance admin can decide (On behalf of all their users) That their users cannot read your opinions. They do not have that power in nostr. Because the users can switch backends extremely easy.
Not just switch but use multiple backends at the same time.
The fediverse has a learning curve. Nostr is not more complicated. Instead of having a username and password you have just a password. Most clients allow you to generate this key and give a default list of relays. So it already is pretty easy. It will get easier as time goes on. This is up to the nostr community to prove but I believe it will.
Because you are still beholdin to amazon, domain name servers and it cost money that has to go through banks. Almost no one is ever going to do that. And what nostr really is is the easy self hosted fediverse solution. Nostr is the technical solution to making it easy to self host your instance. Your instance is your private key.
I need to read about those but, Nostr was born from the failure of PSP solutions. In particular scultllebutt. In the readme for nostr it specifically says because it's not p2p it actually works. There are some p2p solutions in nostr already. Messages contain suggested relays and stuff like that.