pippellia on Nostr: > Ok if you perceive Pubky as a social media and only comparable to Nostr as a social ...
> Ok if you perceive Pubky as a social media and only comparable to Nostr as a social media and so the general Web use cases are outside of the comparison then you are misunderstanding pubky, and that is mostly the marketing fault, and that is why I hate this social media framing.
Again, your words, I am not saying Pubky is just social media. However I see that the social media usecase is what bootstraps the WoT, which is important in both pubky and nostr when you don't know the key, but metedata about the key like the name. How do you know which key Bob has? That's WoT realm.
> that is basically the definition of P2P networks, a software you don't mind to run.
Well, not all P2P networks rely on just altruism.
Finally, free riding is a problem in nostr too, and bigger as you pointed out. That's why paid relays that specialize in simple tasks are imo the way to go in this area.
What's better:
- 20 competing paid relays that just specialize in matching npub --> relay (market driven solution)
- the pkarr approach, using a DHT (small free riding).
I genuinely don't know the answer.
Again, your words, I am not saying Pubky is just social media. However I see that the social media usecase is what bootstraps the WoT, which is important in both pubky and nostr when you don't know the key, but metedata about the key like the name. How do you know which key Bob has? That's WoT realm.
> that is basically the definition of P2P networks, a software you don't mind to run.
Well, not all P2P networks rely on just altruism.
Finally, free riding is a problem in nostr too, and bigger as you pointed out. That's why paid relays that specialize in simple tasks are imo the way to go in this area.
What's better:
- 20 competing paid relays that just specialize in matching npub --> relay (market driven solution)
- the pkarr approach, using a DHT (small free riding).
I genuinely don't know the answer.