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I am a cyperpunk because I believe that direct human interaction, devoid of mediated and control by a centralised authority, is fertile soil for creativity, vitality and human flourishing
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DanConwayDev 1y ago

I have a visceral and emotional attraction to P2P. Yet I want to selectively reveal myself to others and the world and protect myself from bad actors.

I do not want to choose between inviting (pseudo/an)onymous peers to connect directly to hardware in my own home and limiting their ability to communicate with me or access my content.

I do not want to expose my home network to the potential security vulnerabilities of running various community driven P2P software.

I do not want to commit the time and head space required to manage these services and my local internet cannot cannot meet the bandwidth and reliability expected in today's world.

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DanConwayDev 1y ago

I work on nostr because it has a beautiful trade-off balance. It avoids many of the challenges of P2P whilst maintaining decentralisation and censorship resistance.

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DanConwayDev 1y ago

These thoughts have stemmed from a conversation nostr:npub1896p07z8xngpct5ma00mdrad4gqfnwfwdqcl706wrm25ajynahhs27x5ge and I have been having.

I can't help but be drawn to P2P as a purer embodiment of the organic, bottom up way in which infectious things spread.

My logical brain jumps in and suggests the relay model is better.

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DanConwayDev 1y ago

I suppose relays are an evolution of the idea of seed nodes in P2P systems like torrents. nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 do you have any thoughts about a comparison between seed nodes and relays? Did the concept of seed nodes play heavily in your thinking when design the relay model?

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DanConwayDev 1y ago

I'm taking another look at the P2P github alternative radicle.xyz now that the first v1 release candidate is out. They put it quite well:

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relays are much more mature, as for example, there is a market place of paid relays.

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fiatjaf 1y ago

No, only the concept of trackers.

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purple.co 1y ago

https://fiatjaf.com/nostr.html :

" The problem with SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt)

It doesn’t have many problems. I think it’s great. In fact, I was going to use it as a basis for this, but "