Nope. Nostr is not distributed. Bitcoin is.
Nostr is a whole different thing. Nostr is like the second one but in 3D. It is unique.
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Nope. Closer to C than B.
I connect to 20 relays or more at any given time.
No way like the second. More like Bitcoin yes.
It's somewhere in the middle.
I can connect to only 1 relay and still have the Nostr experience.
but you're not limited to one relay 😉
no central point of failure if shit hits the fan
even with B, you have to manually hop "pods"
with nostr and distributed networks, you have the FREEDOM to connect to multiple sources simultaneously. Distributed.
Distributed means p2p. Nostr is not p2p.
It still relies on client-server architecture (not p2p).
But it does it in a "dumb server, smart client" fashion that is unique and allows for many possible configurations, and the most important feature -- it's the user that decides the topology.
To me, it is perfect, until we find a way to creating a p2p infrastructure, a thing that today does not exist (except for ham radio, that is extremely inefficient for reliable high volume data transfer).
anyone can run a relay, just like with bitcoin anyone can run a node.
its P2P.
Your client is like a wallet.
Not really.
Bitcoin has this thing called "gossip protocol" that makes it easy to connect directly to other nodes.
It first connects to some sort of tracker called "seed node". It's a regular node that acts like a tracker. It will give you a list of peers so that you can connect to them directly.
The thing is, with the gossip protocol you don't need to do NAT or have your service on a public IP address. It's like magic.
Nostr does not work that way. To have a relay you need it facing the internet, otherwise other clients won't be able to connect to it.
And if you are the only person using it, that's basically the same as not having it.
Bitcoin nodes have to face the internet too. If I am the only person connecting to a Bitcoin node, thats "basically the same as not having it."
The only difference is that with Bitcoin, the node address discovery is automatic. With Nostr clients, there are defaults set by the devs, but can be customized by the user.
mastodon是经典的一个服务器对应一个账号。在哪里，服务器仍然有封禁用户的权力，并且用户与服务器绑定也很深。但nostr是众筹的，对应很多的中继器。我觉得它比mastodon好得多。
yes I agree!
But because I dont use apple or Damus, I have to rely on having google translate browser tab open at the same time 😄
The Google version of Amethyst is embedded with a translation model, which is very convenient
I don't need much, I'm a simple man, I use Mozhi.
I think the answer may be…
Now the some relays of Nostr communication are being interconnected.
In the past, repeaters only forwarded user posts, which was a C-R-C（client to relay to client）
process.
Nowadays, there are some relays that only take on the responsibility of forwarding user posts to more relays, such as C-R-R, and then the relays send them to the user, which can be called proxy relays.
They do not store data themselves, but simply forward client messages to the actual relay.
For example, purplerelay.com and
relable.org These relays achieve true interconnectivity.^_^
It's organic, it's flexible, and adapts perfectly well to the internet's pseudo decentralization.
It's genius.
