If relays start to specialize in certain types of content (porn, messaging, news, commerce, etc) are we just going to end up creating another centralized architecture? It seems rather likely to me that these different types of data will be stored by different relays. If you replace ‘relay’ with ‘website’ how will it be different from the current web?
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I made a post a while back that relates to your question, at least as I see it. Let's see if this link works..
The question becomes how many relays specializing in a particular type of content will share notes.
Right now, websites don't really share content well with each other. With relays, that can be changed, as sharing is implied in the data model.
Could a single relay choose not to share, and would users/clients validate that approach by subscribing to it?
Are we already seeing centralization in the services that store images, videos, and other data content?
Things to keep in mind, questions to answer continually as we move forward in building out thia new communication galaxy.
Good points. Currently when I share a meme where is that image file stored? The relays don’t store images, right?