Replying to Avatar Lysander Spooner

It's an oxymoron alright. We're here for the decentralization and you guys keep shilling your centralized database.

Distributed is not decentralized, and Nostr should teach you the difference.

Every resilient centralized database in the world, from Twitter to Bitcoin, is distributed across thousands of nodes.

What makes a data layer 'centralized' like Twitter is that those nodes always try to sync up to the same authoritative global state.

What makes Nostr 'decentralized' is that there is no conception of nodes syncing up to make multiple clones of the same exact data.
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Alejandro Muyshondt 2y ago

Nostr "Nodes" = Nostr Relays... how do you think this message gets to you?

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Lysander Spooner 2y ago

Through decentralized relays. Each of the relays that sent me your message has a different set of messages and they never try to sync up (well, it's not in the protocol). If all the relays synced with each other like Bitcoin nodes or the Facebook CDN, Nostr would not have a decentralized data layer, but a centralized and distributed one.