Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol "SMTP" ended up being rather captured/centralized toward an oligopoly over time in an effort to manage spam.

Here's another #asknostr for today:

What aspects of Nostr's design will make it more resistant to that fate? The social graph web of trust element?
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Tim Bouma 1y ago

Definitely the close association with payments (zaps and Cashu tokens). Must easier to impose a cost and/or generate revenue.

Also, keeping the relays as dumb as possible, similar to dumb internet routers that can’t inspect packets.

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