Nostr Web Client

The VC funding machine existing may be a bigger threat to Nostr than it not existing.

Pubky seems to use an approach of “homeservers” just like Matrix, the Fediverse, I think ATproto as well…

Keeping a copy of NIP-65 for all users only costs $20/mo at most. There are hundreds of free relays right now funded by absolutely no one. I’m storing all of them at nostr.land for free and I’m not noticing an impact on the cost.

Either way, we can always use DHT if it really becomes such a need.

And the claim that IPv4 or IPv6 is centralized is absurd. There are multiple local registries and not just ICANN, and there have been no cases where someone’s IP block was forcefully taken from them.

Nuh 6mo ago

Guys, for the love of anything holy, I know I can host every DNS records in the universe and it won't cost much.

That is not the point, the point is if I am one of only handful of hardcoded servers serving the records of the entire Internet;

1. It will cost a LOT more than disk space lol.

2. Once I am sick of this and close my server, now what???

#2 is the big one, it is why ICANN has bad reputation... the fact that there is only 13 servers makes them vulnerable to regulations.

If people could nimbly agree on other root servers they would have done it, but it is socially impossible, these are hardcoded in billions of devices and impossible to update in a graceful way.

So when someone suggests the same architecture for Nostr they need to own the fact that they are reinventing ICANN but with signed records, still censorable.

The only solution to this is what Bitcoin does to miners and what the DHT does to routers... make a dynamic open permissionless set of servers.

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