It’s because every now and we fall back to the bitcoin architecture where we think everyone needs to have the full nostr snapshot. If we really really care about that, just make relays push notes to each other. But we also don’t like that.

Welp, the internet is modeled after centralized infrastructure and central authorities, retrofitting p2p only gets you so far, even bitcoind has hardcoded nodes. I think truly decentralized discovery requires decentralized infrastructure. Like imagine if FIPS nodes published some metadata about the services they host, worst case scenario you walk the three asking everyone if they’re a nostr relay or something.