xte5d agoWell... Consider that Nostr is not really decentralized. The relay model means some large hub and many relays unseen by most, so actual substantial centralization without imposing it formally.
Nostr is awesome for many reasons, but it's not really decentralized. Largely ignoring both the ZeroNet failure lesson, the Usenet success lesson and the eMule/KAD model. If this not change Nostr will remain marginal unfortunately.
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fiatjaf5d agoYou may be thinking that everybody only reads from some hardcoded relays but that's just a weirdly common misunderstanding.
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Martin Lowe4d agoSeems to me that most people using phrases like «not really decentralized» are hardly better than people saying «not real communism».
Question isn’t even whether it’s sufficiently decentralized, but whether it *can be*.
There’s always a slide towards centralization, because it often pays off for the centralizers. That’s fine. What you need is a mechanism for decentralizing when it gets out of hand.
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