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quoting nevent1q…dess

People like to say that nostr doesn't scale, but what does that even mean? Number of daily active users? Throughput? Database size? Multi-region availability?

I went to the "@scale" conference a number of years ago, and the focus was mainly "how to deal with big data", with presentations on Kafka, BigTable, RenderMan, and others. This definition of "scale" is meaningful for centralized services, but irrelevant to Nostr.

The only type of scale I'm interested in for nostr is "internet" scale, where servers and clients are entirely independent and decoupled, and can be replicated as many times as needed to support demand. And we're already there.