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@ Dikaios1517
2025-05-04 20:30:38
SermonAudio is a media hosting and streaming service built for churches to have their sermons available online, and yes, my church uses it. Facebook took down all sermons from SermonAudio that had been shared on their platform. The sermons are still available from SermonAudio directly, but any posts to Facebook with links to them were purged, including all that had been shared there by my church.
There are two ways this would have been prevented using Nostr. First, media hosting here is not nearly so centralized. If a church runs its own Blossom server, and most churches have a few tech-savvy folks capable of setting that up, then a DNS-based purge like this would only, at most, affect a single church, rather than the vast majority of churches who share content online. And because Blossom can have redundancy on other servers, not even that church would be affected, so long as their content was housed on a couple other Blossom servers for redundancy.
Second, a relay or a client might decide to block notes sharing content from a church's media host, but this would have little to no effect, since their notes would still be available from any other relay they are writing to, and on any other Nostr client that hasn't blocked them.