- high bandwidth usage
that's one of the tradeoffs, keep reading below to understand.
- relay operators need to get paid
not necessarily, the goal that is currently work in progress is to have the outbox model be widely adopted. every user has their own relay they run, or have someone run for them.
there is significant progress being made over different clients aiming to this.
just like with TOR, there will always be people willing to run relays for free.
not to mention that running a nostr relay is easy and accessible to anyone.
- instead of one evil corporation having your data, everyone does
information should be free and nostr enables that. as soon as you post something on legacy social media, it is *public*, it can be seen by anyone so what is nostr doing wrong? nostr takes it a step further by making it verifiable with every post being signed. "don't trust, verify."
when we say nostr is better for your privacy, it is the case because your *private* data (ie queries sent to relays) gets spread all over nostr via hundreds of different relays (outbox model). that way, it is significantly harder for any malicious actor to be able to know what/where you are browsing.
on the client side, you are not being tracked which is not the case on legacy social media where every single touch on your screen is analyzed. (most nostr clients are open source, that can be verified)
- privacy was never a consideration in the protocol design
the main goal behind nostr is censorship resistance and is currently the best real decentralized network in the social media realm.
privacy is and has always been a consideration for most builders and users of nostr. you notice that when you look at the NIPs, and how a lot of clients integrate TOR.
- NIPs are a moving target.
that is one of the main strengths of nostr, achieving interoperability is not easy but it's being done remarkably for most NIPs.
seems like when something is rewritten, it is for the better. take a look at DMs, we're going from NIP-04 to NIP-17 (so much better) to now NIP-EE achieving MLS integration on a decentralized network.
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there are issues and we all know that, what makes nostr different is that we're at least acknowledging them and trying to solve them consistently.