Rules, not rulers is harder to build, but also harder to topple.
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I'd argue ATProto lexicons are more decentralised than Nostr NIPS. If you zoom out it's a different story—but just zooming in to that one specific aspect then that's how it seems.
Nostr can do truly decentralized, but it's specialty is arguably distributed. So, overlapping pools of centralization, that npubs can travel through, or hop over.
Yeah I think that's a pretty good summary. Wouldn't want to attempt a diagram though.
We're diagramming it. 😁 Or, rather, visualizing it and making it navigable.
Thank you for sharing this info. It really helps me understand Nostr from the dev's perspective and be more patient with any tech issues considering the challenging decentralized objective.