# Relays

Tik Tok, X, Facebook, and Instagram all use the old model - a single "relay". With those apps, when you make a post, the post is sent from your phone to the company's "relay". When someone else views your post, their phone downloads your post from the company's "relay". When you follow someone or they follow you, only the company's "relay" knows this. ("Relay" = server)

Nostr uses the new model - one or more relays. With nostr apps, when you make a post, the post is sent from your phone to one or more relays, all owned and controlled by different people. When someone else views your post, their phone downloads the post from anyone of those relays. When you follow someone or they follow you, all your relays and their relays know this.

That's a major difference:

Old = a single company controlled relay/server

Nostr = many independently controlled relays/servers

#introductions #tiktok #nostrexplained #asknostr #new #welcome #relays

📚 “The nature of Bitcoin is such that once version 0.1 was released the core design was set in stone for the rest of its lifetime.”

- Satoshi Nakamoto, June 17th, 2010

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GM!

Doing my own research today during my daughter’s tennis practice. Spending some time looking at the most fundamental document of #bitcoin .

Have you read it?

#coffeechain #whitepaper

Tik-Tokers arriving on Nostr like

Honestly we all sound absolutely insane on #nostr from the outside looking in 🤣

Yeah I already made a video that is the shorter version of this explanation, so this piece is actually responding to all the many many questions - that is why it’s long 😅

Simon! My man! More Swedes on the platform. I approve 🇸🇪