Nostr Web Client

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

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.

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jb55 3mo ago 💬 2

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

frphank 3mo ago 💬 2

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

jb55 3mo ago

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

frphank 3mo ago

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

atyh 3mo ago 💬 1

scale.

the siren song of the short sighted corporatist and politician.

The Daniel 🖖 3mo ago

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linux dude 3mo ago

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.

linux dude 3mo ago

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

linux dude 3mo ago

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.