what's even more critical is developing credible, standardized, permissionless reputation system. there have been other distributed protocols, like email. what destroyed them was spam.

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

if we don't have a *distributed reputation system*, NOSTR will eventually go the way of SMTP

big relays will start whitelisting other big relays, users will be wary of any relay not in the top 10, because they're filled with crap DM's that will overwhelm them. Some relays will get banned for hosting illegal content and not taking it down. Etc.

If we tackle this head first, and assume adversarial environment and begin to develop distributed WOT systems now, we can prevent centralization