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#nostr is not #Bitcoin

there is nothing original in the design and specification yet, that isn't served best already by cloud architecture.

the resource requirements for relays will grow beyond reasonable home server and small VPS operator capacity. without a mechanism for funding relay operators, and sharding the data they handle is designed, it's on a highway to centralised hell.

even the minimal feature to allow users to specify an expiry date isn't there. the format is JSON which is a very bulky data encoding. it uses HTTP websockets, which are very heavy in the negotiation phase and thus not well suited to gossip heavy traffic, required to make relays peers not just servers. all associated media in notes are currently served already on a very small number of cloud based CDNs.

none of the people involved in making the specification or allowing proposals in have shown any interest or understanding of any of these requirements.

nostr has a chance, over the next year, to get serious about centralisation resistance and after that it's just gonna be another buzzword used to sell the same old shit.
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Luxas 2y ago

The relays need a forced sync between all other relays who signal they're online. Without this, it could lead to "big relay" scenario of centralised-ish network.

Of course, forcing relays to mirror one another will increase data size exorbitantly as well as prevent niche topic, micro relays from existing. That would likely mean it's not cost-effective for most to operate a relay. But, that knock-on effect is a discussion for another day, once the first bit is addressed.

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mleku 2y ago

the "other day" is between now and when amazon, facebook and google take over nostr branding and it becomes meaningless.

it requires the design of a consensus algorithm, and i don't mean "adding a shitcoin and putting it on a blockchain". that one has already been done. go visit steemit.com to see that in action.

i mean something along similar lines as bittorrent, something that is always usable at any scale from dialup all the way to the whole AWS network.