Nostr Web Client

I would think you would be able to take the file coin information and implement it since most of the work is already done. I don't know enough about this type of thing to say for sure.

I mean I have three external hard drives laying around doing nothing. And if the approach you mentioned was taken I could put them to use maybe make a few sats here and there but if everyone did that or those who are willing to did that it would seem like it would strengthen the protocol right?

Greg 2y ago

Hey nostr:npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd loved the episode, thanks for your feedback on the NostrTechWeekly post. Much appreciated.

Re your idea of Nostr being more similar to how Napster works. It’s an interesting idea, it just has trade offs.

What you’re talking about is more P2P/Distributed system which is definitely ideal for censorship resistance. It does have performance downsides, especially as the number of things you want to share goes up (there’s only a few million songs total but there are trillions of social posts)

What you’re proposing can definitely be done technically. It just may not be scalable to handle all future Nostr usage.

There is wisdom to how FiatJ made Nostr a decentralized system (which is different from a distributed or P2P system with different trade offs. Decentralized might be the right balance between centralized and distributed that can be more censorship resistant than current players and also efficient enough to work as a first-rate social experience.

I’m happy to chat more if you’d like. It’s a nuanced topic.