There seems to be two issues:
1) Does the architecture cause it to centralize over time by creating an incentive to connect to the largest relays?
2) Who will run these larger relays? Will they continue to be subsidized by wealthy bitcoiners?
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Oh, one more
3) isn’t it dangerous for free speech to force all the content through just a few relays?
These are similar questions as lightning centralization issues due to how liquidity works.
It's a trade-off between how many relays to which a client should reasonably connect vs what level of relay distribution is sufficient for censorship resistance.
But what’s your opinion on it?
It seems users will always choose the largest relays because they want reach and content.
Nostr appears to be centralizing because the incentives are pushing it there.
Am i missing something that will push it to decentralize?
free stuff is bait for stupid people
explain the revenue model that doesn't involve being paid by goverment intelligence agencies that doesn't more or less eradicate every aspect of the protocol from its actual deployment pls
in 5 years time free relays are all going to be pure honeypots
1. this is about the client design
2. i'm not using the big public relays, i pay for my service, i build this tech