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Am I the only one that doesn’t think nostr will ever replace YouTube?

Are we supposed to pretend that the expense/technical challenge of hosting, processing, and streaming videos is going to be handled reliably by my uncle Jim and yours?

We aren’t even anywhere close to replacing existing text-only use cases at scale and I can’t help but think we’d be further along if we didn’t spend so much time with our heads in the clouds.

Good morning!

Fabian 1y ago

I think similar to how smaller blocks on bitcoin are necessary for decentralization, we will need minimal text based communication to overcome the challenges of censorship on nostr.

In the future we may have:

- Smoll-relay maxis -> good for outbox model / decentralization

- Text-only maxis (kind 1) --> easy to relay / unstoppable

- Smoll-follow list maxis (kind 3) ---> good for WoT / nostr dunbar number

YouTube and anything similar that requires big data and processing power will just naturally lead to centralization because of the costs.

We may need the "Other Stuff" to grow nostr's network effect, and hopefully we can do it in a way that it won't become a "Communication vs Everything Else war" (ie block size war)

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