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Is it worth explaining? The web is based on HTTP, it's a succesfull and ubiquitous protocol, meaning that it "just works" everywhere and on everything, which hyperlinks gluing it all together. Nostr, is an extension of http, so another web protocol, meaning it inherits the large network effect of HTTP. That is the reason it works. If it was a new protocol, rather than a sub protocol, it would likely never have taken off.
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james 1y ago

Is it the relays which essentially enable the protocol to exist by enabling apps to read and write new data?

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Melvin Carvalho 1y ago

Yes. While, technically relays just transmit data from one user to another. But for now, they also store the data. We should have (a long time ago) had both transport and storage as first-class in nostr. Again resistance there. So, for now, relays are the facilitators. But that is a niche proposition. We can do much more.