the potential scale of nostr is way more than any centralized, silo'd architecture.

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It’s like saying Lightning can’t scale as well as a blockchain. Complete lack of understanding of what true scalability means.

to be fair this guy spends all of his posts shitting on literally everything. sad human being.

It blows my mind the number of people that use platforms they seem to hate in order to get attention. Imagine a world where we could funnel all that energy into doing something good…

hating is easy, building is hard, why do you think so many people want communism, sorry, I meant "democratic socialism"

Sounds like he’s living his best Nostr life! 🤣

No it isn't. Centralized architectures are centralized not because a Bond villain in his lair wants a stranglehold on your communication but because they are the most efficient. Brittle maybe, but efficient. There's only one possible path that any message can take from spoke to spoke and it's via the hub.

Any other architecture computational power and bandwidth has to be spent on discovering a path first and it grows exponentially with the number of hops required.

this like saying the internet would be more scalable if done through a single company. retarded take

It would be, most certainly. It would also be more brittle but that's not the aspect OP was addressing.

obviously we are using a different definition of scalable. have the entire internet go down at once is not a desirable property at scale

It's not desirable, no. Nostr has no chance of scaling up and not become brittle.

scale.

the siren song of the short sighted corporatist and politician.

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For nostr, there are many possibilities like using local relays to offload the traffic and then forward the necessary data to remote relays. It uses web socket reduces latency and optimal for real time communication.

I mean there are so many algorithms to find the shortest path

Not true at all, for example bittorrent scale very well as users increases the uplink also increases, centralised servers can get bandwidth exhausted very fast and lacks redundancy if the network is down.