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How exactly will Outbox/Gossip decentralize #nostr if most new users are onboarded to the same handful of default bootstrap relays used by the most popular client apps?

Also, how does search and discovery of content and users work within the Outbox paradigm/approach?
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hodlbod 1y ago

It doesn't really matter as long as default relay selections meet some threshold of reasonableness. 99% of users could be on the 5 top relays and the network still be meaningfully decentralized. As long as the 1% aggressively banned from the top 5 and the other 10% banned from one or more of the top 5 can still be reached, you're good in my book.

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corndalorian 1y ago

This sounds like a reasonable level of decentralization already exists, and if so then outbox is needed more to keep the users on the fringes who want to, or even have no choice but to, use obscure relays, from becoming second class citizens on nostr. Am I understanding correctly?