> Well, look at how Primal and Damus differ as one example. You can 100% lose posts between them if you use both.
it depends entirely on the relay you are using and how you the client you are using implemented client-side filtering, that's not censorship...
> Or, ask yourself, if Nostr were the size of X, who could afford to run a relay?
The largest cost by far would be bandwidth, storage space is insignificant, because the likelyhood that any relay would have to store everything is essentially zero (and that's a good thing).
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@Samiz, and in the future other p2p relay protocols, many of which I assume will be integrated directly into clients (which is something I am plannign for Eve), the bandwidth cost drops as well, to the point where only small, but periodic queries would have to be performed on relays.
Also, I happen to believe that the current way messages are sent and recevied between clients and relays is straight up garbage, but by simply introducing binary messsaging, and possibly compression, we can reduce the amount of data sent and received significantly.
> RELAYS ARE ALWAYS PERMISSIONED, THEY ARE NOT PUBLIC COMMONS
that's a non-refutable and entirely definition based argument that has nothing to do with the discussion at hand. fine relays are permissioned by your definition, doesn't change my argument
