If the Fediverse is like a network of federated villages, some big, many small.

And if Twitter is like a megacity with a central, automated, technocratic authority.

Then to what can we liken Nostr?

The concept of relays seems to defy all human habitat comparisons.

It is perhaps like groups of wanderers, interacting and exchanging information through certain paths, never required to stay in a certain place; nomadic but free.