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Troy's avatar
Troy 6 months ago
- High bandwidth usage - Relay operators need to get paid, and the typical user currently pays for centralized services by sharing their data. Paying for multiple relays will not be accepted by these folks. - Instead of one evil corporation having your data, everyone has access to your notes, etc. - Privacy was never a consideration in the protocol design - NIPs are a moving target. People have been attempting to implement private (secure) chats and marketplaces, but have to keep rewriting and redesigning what they just released. I'm sure if you spend a few minutes, you can think of other issues, unless you're a new user.
Big Bad John's avatar
Big Bad John 6 months ago
Any expert in Nostr should be able to do so better than me, right? How about you show me the link?
richard's avatar
richard 6 months ago
- high bandwidth usage that's one of the tradeoffs, keep reading below to understand. - relay operators need to get paid not necessarily, the goal that is currently work in progress is to have the outbox model be widely adopted. every user has their own relay they run, or have someone run for them. there is significant progress being made over different clients aiming to this. just like with TOR, there will always be people willing to run relays for free. not to mention that running a nostr relay is easy and accessible to anyone. - instead of one evil corporation having your data, everyone does information should be free and nostr enables that. as soon as you post something on legacy social media, it is *public*, it can be seen by anyone so what is nostr doing wrong? nostr takes it a step further by making it verifiable with every post being signed. "don't trust, verify." when we say nostr is better for your privacy, it is the case because your *private* data (ie queries sent to relays) gets spread all over nostr via hundreds of different relays (outbox model). that way, it is significantly harder for any malicious actor to be able to know what/where you are browsing. on the client side, you are not being tracked which is not the case on legacy social media where every single touch on your screen is analyzed. (most nostr clients are open source, that can be verified) - privacy was never a consideration in the protocol design the main goal behind nostr is censorship resistance and is currently the best real decentralized network in the social media realm. privacy is and has always been a consideration for most builders and users of nostr. you notice that when you look at the NIPs, and how a lot of clients integrate TOR. - NIPs are a moving target. that is one of the main strengths of nostr, achieving interoperability is not easy but it's being done remarkably for most NIPs. seems like when something is rewritten, it is for the better. take a look at DMs, we're going from NIP-04 to NIP-17 (so much better) to now NIP-EE achieving MLS integration on a decentralized network. - there are issues and we all know that, what makes nostr different is that we're at least acknowledging them and trying to solve them consistently.