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one of the things that most people don't realise is that the reason why #nostr is built on a relay model, which requires people to run relays on computers that have inbound internet connections

is because #p2p has failed because the mainstream of tech doesn't want users to be able to host data

i dunno what the ratio is but something between 5 and 20% of nodes in a p2p network need to have inbound routing

without that, it doesn't work

and that's why we still have NAT and very few ISPs provide IPv6 addresses
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ponymontana💜⚡ 1y ago

I think the reason because p2p fails is incentives. Everyone want to take, pretty noone want to give, and so pretty noone want to offer inbound connection to strangers.

Bitcoin is a strange creature with inbuilt incemtives that create a p2p that scale and works (even if the incentive to run nodes for others are weak, but pretty work in the end).

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

on a technical level, the limited ability for household connections to have inbound connections is the main reason

i reject this fake incentives bullshit

everyone who downloads torrentz wants to seed a bit

but it doesn't actually even help that much if you don't have inbound routing!