Lysander Spooner on Nostr: In a decentralized system, there is no system-wide data visibility, no single ...

In a decentralized system, there is no system-wide data visibility, no single authoritative version of all the data. That there is means the data is centralized. My condom purchase in Thailand is logged next to your beer purchase in Australia in a blockchain, even stored on the same nodes. Blockchain literally is a centralized database served up over an ad-hoc content distribution network (CDN). Distributed, not decentralized.

Nostr is actually decentralized, there is no authoritative version of all the data, and will get more so. But that literally means there is no global view. Nostr is centralized to the degree the global view is all encompassing.