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Again, it makes no sense. If they were writing events for an year that would be 54 events per day. No one writes that much. They're probably doing this for 90 days only at best, which means 222 events every day.

Nostr doesn't work when you have no internet.

Sorry for the FUD. I was just asking innocently and because I was lazy and curious, I don't have any evidence of anything.

If I was running a relay I would definitely block events with too many tags.

Has Snowden given up on Nostr already?

"it would not be enough for Jones to update his settings with his new relay and all the clients would then grab his posts from there?"

Exactly, that would be enough. That is what I was calling "the gossip model". No one is doing that currently, except https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip and https://coracle.social/.

Well, #[0] himself said that people learned what RSS was and how to add an RSS feed to a podcast app decades ago.

Exactly: (after an hour of intermittent usage)

Try to make #[0] realize that though. He will die on the hill that Nostr is bandwidth-heavy by nature. He just posts that same FUD every day.

That's not what I am saying. I am saying clients are different. #[0]

Beware of Mr. Togami's takes. He doesn't really know what he is talking about.

Of course, it makes no sense for Alex Jones to host random content from all his followers.

What is the "getgo"? When you have zero followers and no one knows who you are? Then you start a new relay?

I think it's both, but more importantly the impact that the conjunction of Alex Jones and his followers have in spreading new challenging ideas through society.

(Not Alex Jones personally specifically, of course.)

I guess that solves it.

Nice catch, yes, that came to my mind too. But writing to is much simpler than reading from -- still this app could allow you to pick the relays to publish each note to in case it's a contextual thing.

People who do not support, do not care about or never heard about the "gossip model" -- which is basically the idea that clients should (mostly) automatically find people in wherever relays they are and fetch their notes from these relays -- here is a question for you:

What would happen if everybody is following Alex Jones on the 10 biggest relays, but they all collude to ban Alex Jones? Then Alex Jones starts publishing on a relatively tiny relay hosted in Colombiat. How can Nostr fulfill its censorship-resistant promises in this situation? Would all of his millions of Nostr followers have to manually open their settings and add his new relay address?

Now I am thinking that it might be a good idea to come up with a new URL scheme that is backwards-compatible.

Instead of magnet:?ws= we could have just ?torrenthash=. Then all clients keep working as they are, but clients that want to join the p2p frenzy can implement a simple scheme to transform that into an actual magnet and then use that with webtorrent (or nonweb-torrent) to download the file from either peers or webseeds and verify the hash immediately.

Basically zero-cost pseudo-decentralized images with WebTorrent and WebSeeds:Β https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1653275/222025570-6f893106-9c35-4862-bea6-10e518c91b92.mp4