After some podcasts listened and a lot of reading, their endgame is sharding as a solution to massive data storage.

Which misses the point, since “sharding” is what already was built into Nostr natively, when we don’t have to store everything, much less be in sync with each other (but we do this much more eficiently network and storage wise)

We are already playing their endgame, therefore we won (format wise).

And it makes sense, if you think about it:

Making everyone in sink is exactly what you DONT want - plurality, simplicity, efficiency and accessibility can all be achieved Nostr format, not IPFS format.

And it kind of replicates the real world:

Once you say something out loud, there’s no going back. If someone has the power to erase from the past (even if it’s you), than this person can be coerced to do that.

In Nostr it’s impossible, therefore, it’s better suited to be the digital AGORA, replicating its properties:

You gotta be responsible for what you say! 🙏🏻⚡️

I thought I posted this, repeating

You can run your own relay, you can restrict write access to yourself, read to all. But then the person must add your relay to see your stuff

You can open it to people you trust

You. An use the expense relay to require a deposit to access, then take a fee for use or delete notes & take deposits if they violate TOS.

Probably easier to use outside resources though.