mister_monster on Nostr: Well, it's not *a* server. It's multiple servers according to the choice of the ...
Well, it's not *a* server. It's multiple servers according to the choice of the publisher.
So with RSS, the identity of the feed where the data is fetched from is a single server. If that server goes down the data being published becomes unavailable. Also, these servers are associated with real world identities.
With Nostr, the identity of the feed is the signature of the person publishing the feed. The feed can be fetched from any number of servers (relays) according to the needs of the publisher. You can publish your information/media/data to any number of them, and the likelihood that your published information becomes unavailable becomes increasingly low the more relays you publish to.
The difference that gives us censorship resistance is one server vs an arbitrary number of servers where the identity of the feed is not tied to any one.
So with RSS, the identity of the feed where the data is fetched from is a single server. If that server goes down the data being published becomes unavailable. Also, these servers are associated with real world identities.
With Nostr, the identity of the feed is the signature of the person publishing the feed. The feed can be fetched from any number of servers (relays) according to the needs of the publisher. You can publish your information/media/data to any number of them, and the likelihood that your published information becomes unavailable becomes increasingly low the more relays you publish to.
The difference that gives us censorship resistance is one server vs an arbitrary number of servers where the identity of the feed is not tied to any one.