Big Barry Bitcoin on Nostr: If you run your own relay, then nothing really affects you from a relay perspective ...
If you run your own relay, then nothing really affects you from a relay perspective because you can force your server to be "blind" to it.
That said, every client also has a brain and this is where the real muscle is.
If I see you have a flag, my client will receive the content but can warn me. For example #Amethyst will blur NSFW posts but offer for me to reveal them.
Clients can also make a decision based on proximity: if there are reports of scam, but none of them are from your followers, or your followers' followers, then your client can choose to ignore the flag.
This is the nature of decentralised decision making, almost anything is possible. What is important is that if you are being unfairly silenced, your data is still available, you just need to work on finding or building the appropriate client(s) and relays and getting your audience to adopt them and you're back without having to lose your historical posts etc.
That said, every client also has a brain and this is where the real muscle is.
If I see you have a flag, my client will receive the content but can warn me. For example #Amethyst will blur NSFW posts but offer for me to reveal them.
Clients can also make a decision based on proximity: if there are reports of scam, but none of them are from your followers, or your followers' followers, then your client can choose to ignore the flag.
This is the nature of decentralised decision making, almost anything is possible. What is important is that if you are being unfairly silenced, your data is still available, you just need to work on finding or building the appropriate client(s) and relays and getting your audience to adopt them and you're back without having to lose your historical posts etc.