as i just mentioned a few minutes ago to nostr:npub1g49uyac6d83sss7sln8aumsstle7m3wxwwvc8mmpqsnr8e9f2cdq6ltqvs nostr literally is like the distributed database part of shitcoins - without the token

in actual fact, the consistency of any given segment of the data can be engineered to be however you want it to be, that's part of the reason why it prescribes no consensus

negentropy is a simple, fairly naive example of parts of a replication protocol, there is many other ways to do it, including broadcast/subscription models and an on-demand or pre-emptive caching model, there's garbage collection and geographical and affiinty group sharding as well, and taht's just *inside* the nostr protocol, the databases themselves can also run Paxos, Raft, or even pBFT or similar replication protocols while relays serve up data from these replicas