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if the solution to censorship is flooding the network posting the same message to multiple of their preferred relays in hopes that the recipient gets it, what happens if i get banned from all their preferred relays? i dont think i can message them directly so im effectively blocked

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It doesn't work like that.

Your followers fetch the note from your relays. You tell the network where they can find your notes (self hosted relay) and their client will take the effort to find your content

Relays are not coordinated. For every relay A that bans you because you say X, there will be a relay B that welcomes with open arms if you say X. If the recipients want to hear all the facets of discourse around X, they will subscribe to A and B. If they really hate X, they will subscribe to A but not to B. If they really love X, they will probably subscribe only to B.

Compare this with Mastodon, where your favourite server can decide to exclude other servers, so if A decides that X is toxic, you will never see X as long as you use A.

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