feld on Nostr: I have an honest question: what good is a secure, privacy preserving messenger if ...
I have an honest question: what good is a secure, privacy preserving messenger if it's so easy for a country to block it? Being surveillance resistant isn't helpful when it's not censorship resistant
e.g., blocked in Russia:
- Signal
- Matrix
- Threema
- Session (tor)
- Briar (tor)
- Cwtch (tor)
- SimpleX (tor alternate to their SMP servers)
Published at
2025-03-14 21:56:57Event JSON
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