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Augusto 1 week ago
Umm. I might be wrong, but isn't it literally the other way round? The older a note gets, the less insentive a relay has to keep it
Sure as a network effect if you donโ€™t self host weโ€™d expect only important content to survive. But one cannot kill the concept that is Nostr ๐Ÿ˜„ ๐Ÿค˜
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Augusto 1 week ago
I have my fun on nostr but I think ultimately it's doomed to fail. I believe it will either go the email way (a handful of big tech node operators giving away the expensive parts for free while classifying all small ones as spam), or require people to set up relays to maintain ecosystem health which means people will not use it. The one true form of decentralization is p2p. Not relays, not federation
It depends on how / if an ecosystem expands. A relay isnโ€™t the most complicated thing to setup so there is still hope ๐Ÿ˜„. Iโ€™m Starting to sound like โ€œThe year of Linux on desktop 2026 โ€œ ๐Ÿ˜† I do agree with the p2p argument but it would still be cool if we had some kind of shared semi persistent data store ( like Nostr ) aside the p2p to work with, cause no matter how i twist or turn it, at the end someone will be footing some server bill somewhere. โœŒ๏ธ
agreed hard on the p2p point. ...but i also think that p2p is nostr's far future. every npub becomes nearly synonymous with a relay/personal server; plus a mesh or p2p layer for the connectivity and network/discoverability bit
Nostr fails so long as its growth is tied to โ€œcustodialโ€ business models. When non-custody (of identity and reputation) is proven profitable and accessible, tech companies will actually work harder to preserve this. Sustainable decentralization of infrastructure emerges as a byproduct of intrinsically motivated stakeholders, not as its own altruistic outcome. Nost4 is leading this effort to make non-custody a profitable business model.
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Augusto yesterday
It's been a long week and I cannot understand what you said. Can you dumb it down a little?
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