Nostr Web Client

People who do not support, do not care about or never heard about the "gossip model" -- which is basically the idea that clients should (mostly) automatically find people in wherever relays they are and fetch their notes from these relays -- here is a question for you:

What would happen if everybody is following Alex Jones on the 10 biggest relays, but they all collude to ban Alex Jones? Then Alex Jones starts publishing on a relatively tiny relay hosted in Colombiat. How can Nostr fulfill its censorship-resistant promises in this situation? Would all of his millions of Nostr followers have to manually open their settings and add his new relay address?

jeff 2y ago

He can run a relay with all his archived content.

The colluding relays have a reputation to manage.

What if we raided gossip related events, similar to hard drives? Break up your message, say 5 ways, where only 3 of the 5 are needed to unscramble. Send 5 to different relays. Not a silver bullet, but makes de-platforming harder.

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jeff 2y ago

Intent with the raid idea is that the users have to have the relays that Alex Jones trusts already in their settings to get the list of his updated relays. And those relays could specialize in just serving deplatform risk mitigation.

Idea might not be fully baked. Dunno. Maybe there is something there, not sure.

royaoid 2y ago

use a dht is simpler, nostr also will scale much better if we reduce the amount of relays we write to and start using local backups