nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqvyrx2prp0mne8pczrcvv38ahn5wahsl8hlceeu3f3aqyvmu8zh5szhc8sr nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqxtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzs9d84s8 nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqnjst6azswskk5gp3ns8r6nr8nj0qg65acu8gaa2u9yz7yszjxs9sxh02y3 nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqh50pnxqw9jg7dhr906fvy4mze2yzawf895jhnc3p7qmljdugm6gslajram nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqcgd35mxmy37vhkfcmjckk9dylguz6q8l67cj6h9m45tj5rx569cqry82a3 I know. I was joking, because *cough* some people *cough* have no concept of what decentralization actually entails.

It doesn't mean there's no cohesion ever. That's retarded. You are correct.

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nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq6dhgpql60vmd4mnydjut87vla23a38j689jssaqlqqlzrtqtd0kq987sjh nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqnjst6azswskk5gp3ns8r6nr8nj0qg65acu8gaa2u9yz7yszjxs9sxh02y3 nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqcgd35mxmy37vhkfcmjckk9dylguz6q8l67cj6h9m45tj5rx569cqry82a3 I'll copy my response to the Damus dev:

To be clear, this means that if NOSTR were to reach a scale of 2 billion ish users, the size of the mainstream social media networks, there's a very tiny chance you would ever be able to find anyone outside of your immediate vicinity unless you already know what relay they're using (or by forcing a centralized relay)

It's easy to say fragmentation is good, but I don't think most NOSTR cheerleaders actually understand what that means. This kind of fragmentation essentially means that you're losing the universality that made this type of communication so powerful.

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqcgd35mxmy37vhkfcmjckk9dylguz6q8l67cj6h9m45tj5rx569cqry82a3 Ok. Say NOSTR grows to 2 billion users, about the size of most Meta owned platforms.

How do you ensure that all of them, without either forcing them to use a centralized list of trusted relays, or making them add so many relays the client can't handle it, can contact each other?

(The answer is, you don't. There's no way to do it with the relay system that's currently in place. You'll have to force a connection to a central relay.)

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqcgd35mxmy37vhkfcmjckk9dylguz6q8l67cj6h9m45tj5rx569cqry82a3 nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqnjst6azswskk5gp3ns8r6nr8nj0qg65acu8gaa2u9yz7yszjxs9sxh02y3 I'm not whining. There are probably plenty of solutions to balancing scalability and decentralization.

NOSTR is not one of those solutions. It's just an Internet sports team people who like the IDEA of decentralization buy into.

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqnjst6azswskk5gp3ns8r6nr8nj0qg65acu8gaa2u9yz7yszjxs9sxh02y3 nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqcgd35mxmy37vhkfcmjckk9dylguz6q8l67cj6h9m45tj5rx569cqry82a3 It's not even possible for NOSTR to operate on a mainstream scale without either centralizing or fragmenting.

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Most Buddhism was so diluted by syncretism is was basically extinct until Western scholars applied historical methods to the surviving sources and extracted orthodoxy from the decaying ruins.

But that's just the scholarly end. They aren't the ones practicing. The Westerners who practice Eastern religion just hate Christian morality and want to subvert it, and the powers in these foreign religions aren't relevant enough here to stop them from turning it into a butt sex cult.

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As it turns out, it looks like Judaism, just with a lower IQ.

People call this bad writing but all nonfiction stories are idiot plots.

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nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqm8d6pcrjhke48hasqgx7zkgjdt68u60px04frw753697mcmnyr3qdm9w7h nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqwcf6srj73muaspe5hvyve6af6ep236xzqvfepr6j4vut4c8nkj6sj2grcp nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq67ku22z88qys24pp8vxeqmuwzyrlcremz9933prku8kahm59eyssdvdyq8 nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqau5ea8kup6utzyfxqjyh233ndzxzde02wqzcqvagawse3yxszztsz9l9qk You really do need a God and a Law from that God to retain a coherent ethic to live by. Even if there isn't a God, to deny one is so destructive that you should just pretend there is one.

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqm8d6pcrjhke48hasqgx7zkgjdt68u60px04frw753697mcmnyr3qdm9w7h nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqwcf6srj73muaspe5hvyve6af6ep236xzqvfepr6j4vut4c8nkj6sj2grcp nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqau5ea8kup6utzyfxqjyh233ndzxzde02wqzcqvagawse3yxszztsz9l9qk nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq67ku22z88qys24pp8vxeqmuwzyrlcremz9933prku8kahm59eyssdvdyq8 For all intents and purposes, yeah. It's not too bad in its native countries because those countries have traditional values separate from the religion, but as soon as Buddhism comes in contact with Western liberalism, it folds. There's nothing within Buddhism that enables it to promote good morals for laity. Buddhism assumes good and evil, grounded in karma, but it can't give an account for what that is, so it's inherently weak. Shakyamuni does address these moral questions from time to time, but the canons are historically questionable at best, even practitioners don't take them all that seriously because there are contradictions within respective canons.

The heart of the religion is what your teacher personally transmits to you, it's the life of the sangha, which would be fine EXCEPT all the Asian masters gave valid transmission to the faggots. Even if they weren't personally fags, they just assumed that's how Westerners were, so they created an entire generation of fake hippie masters that want to do nothing but promote communism and butt fucking.