StevenB on Nostr: They do, and it's inefficient and wasteful. If you want to see a note, you ask for it ...
They do, and it's inefficient and wasteful. If you want to see a note, you ask for it from 20 servers. Those 20 servers will send you all the same note. The bandwidth on 19 of them was wasted. Bandwidth adds up to real money. That's just a side effect of how nostr works. Maybe the payoff is worth it, but I think it should at least be understood as one of the tradeoffs, and perhaps there's a solution to it worth exploring.
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