Nostr is a new topology. It's a multi-star topology. Its client-side replication control. It's sovereign identity. It's not mesh. It's not people. It's not blockchain. It's something new and it solves problems we didn't know we had until we had nostr.
Lots of people are looking to build on a decentralized censorship-resistant platform that offers privacy, that is mesh, that is p2p, or uses blockchain, or is federated, or
Nostr clearly is in this space. But this thread is more general.
Signal is in this space and Moxie Marlinspike argued (5 years ago) in favor of centralization here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdM-XTRyC9c
I'm not going to argue against all his points, many of them are clearly constructed and wrong and not worth my time. But that video is what inspired this post.
I want to talk about high level ideas in this space, and clear up what I believe are common misconceptions. Since I'm going to write about lots of separate things I'll make sub-posts for each point.
Discussion
P2P spell corrected is people.