I have multiple devices streaming in notes via notedeck: my samsung tablet, my desktop, my android phone, my macbook, my linux notebook. It will be cool if these auto-sync’d with each other on the local network using negentropy. Since each client runs an embedded relay (nostrdb) then each node can serve requests to other nodes. This would be a good testbed for an initial p2p-style version of nostr. Making it work over a globally routed network is a harder problem, but for local sync it might be useful for quicky getting up to date without needing to ask the outside world. This is a toy version of the idea of ICN: information-centric networking, where any network request can be sourced from router caches on a closer network first.

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someone 1 year ago
nostr can be much more than 'advanced RSS' if we did the 'tree of relays' paradigm. the current design is not able to handle hundreds of thousands of CCU in a decentralized way. it is able to handle if current relays do load balancing and sync but it wont be decentralized.