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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?

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Andrew 2y ago

In addition to the client automatically finding the relays that host his content, we should also have a healthy number of relays that sync with other relays. This way, in your example, that small Colombian relay doesn’t get hammered by the traffic because other relays will mirror the content from it.

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iefan 🕊️ 2y ago

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royaoid 2y ago

even better clients backup their events and others

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