pjv on Nostr: This is great news. I think if widely well-implemented in relays and clients the ...
This is great news. I think if widely well-implemented in relays and clients the gossip model can fix some fundamental issues in nostr that would eventually (under higher adoption) become show-stoppers.
If nostr's functioning becomes critically dependent on some low number of popular relays (which is arguably the case already), it loses its single most important characteristic: DECENTRALIZATION. And those popular relays inevitably become targets of all kinds of interference (hacks, DDOS's, court orders, etc, etc, etc).
If nostr is going to work as a large-scale social media platform (there are plenty of other use-cases that don't depend on this), there have to be LOTS of independent, commodity relays all over the place that are fairly dumb and follow a relatively simple set of common rules.
If nostr's functioning becomes critically dependent on some low number of popular relays (which is arguably the case already), it loses its single most important characteristic: DECENTRALIZATION. And those popular relays inevitably become targets of all kinds of interference (hacks, DDOS's, court orders, etc, etc, etc).
If nostr is going to work as a large-scale social media platform (there are plenty of other use-cases that don't depend on this), there have to be LOTS of independent, commodity relays all over the place that are fairly dumb and follow a relatively simple set of common rules.