Nostr Web Client

Er, yes, it was.

I was there, building my first site on a tenner a month shared space with Demon having read "Learn HTML in a Week". I started on Gopher and WAIS and even Telnet.

Centralisation happens because people like it. They get big services at low costs because of economies of scale.

The same thing will happen to relays. I run nostr.naut.social. It's 4000sats, on most of the lists of Paid Relays, it's a UK Relay so all UK Nostrians should join for that paid relay speed. It covers about half it's cloud costs and NONE of my time.

This is fine, we're all exploring, but roll on 3 years and most people are going to be on the very reliable high performing FREE Google Relay because it's FREE and IT WORKS.

Nostr, like everything else built by people, will be what it will be, and that is almost certainly not going to be anything remotely like what the idealists dream of WHERE those dreams clash with human nature.

Michael Anton Fischer 2y ago

Well, but how did your data packets get from A to B. The telecom infrastructure was even more centralized in the early days.

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Ian "nostr.naut.social" D 2y ago

Well if that's where you start, EVERYTHING has always been centralised and always will be. Going right back to hunter gatherer

Michael Anton Fischer 2y ago

I worked in the surveillance industry. The internet was a military technology and the agencies never let go of it.

Google and co all where built with that money.

The centralization is a consequence of government having a money printer and thus being able to heave centralized services to a scale that is almost impossible to compete with in a free market way.

But in the long run the market always wins and humans tend to drift to decentralization over time.

The pendulum has only seldom swung far into centralization of civilization as it is now.

There is hope.