What is Nostr?
fiatjaf /
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2024-11-25 13:31:13
in reply to nevent1q…n7wm

fiatjaf on Nostr: URLs do not resolve without context, there are always hardcoded DNS servers, and ...

URLs do not resolve without context, there are always hardcoded DNS servers, and there can always be hardcoded Nostr "indexer" relays serving the same purpose if that is your tradeoff. Nostr can work with that, it can also work without that, it can work with multiple methods.

DNS can fail and often fails when something is misconfigured or when some DNS server goes down (which happens even though they are few, giant and everything is a big centralized scam), Nostr contextual resolution can fail, hardcoded indexer relays can fail.

Everything is contextual and can fail.

And, by the way, the DHT is also contextual and can also fail.

I have no idea why you're talking to me about some unnamed "people with vague assumption that Nostr solved global discovery" even though no one has ever claimed that as far as I know. No one uses that terminology, "global discovery", and I am not even aware of what you have in mind when you mention it. In any case I thought you were talking to me, not to this undefined person with undefined beliefs.

I have lost your point completely, by the way, because you are indeed mixing many things together and when I ask for clarification again and again you just don't give any and move on to make another point.
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