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Decentralization is a network quality.

It is achieved mostly by reducing the amount of data in the system, while increasing the quantity of unique copies of that data.

If your protocol is "poorly" designed, it will revert to centralization at scale.

Merely being an open protocol is not enough.

So you must intentionally include in your design, how to handle centralization.
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Dylan Gardner 5mo ago 💬 1

Is nostr not being improved to combat that with implemented economic incentives and general protocol improvements that would enhance data replication? Also think I might have worded my previous response wrong. I meant is the solution you are building focused on scaling using centralized servers? I’m new to this trying to get a grasp.

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Big Bad John 5mo ago

Pubky allows for both self-hosting and centralized hosting in a safe way.

Hosts are commoditized and thus compete on how little they censor.

Users can simply change a setting if their host misbehaves, to switch to another host, or to self hosting.