What is Nostr?
bean-borrower / borlotti garbanzo
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2023-01-24 23:07:54

bean-borrower on Nostr: A thought, a dream, a poem, or something else: nostr is more decentralized than X but ...

A thought, a dream, a poem, or something else: nostr is more decentralized than X but it still smells centralized. Old patterns are hard to shake. Targeting the browser may be a mistake.

Websockets (the basis of nostr) are a client/server protocol. This choice delineates a central interior to the network (the servers) that provision the compute, network, and data obligations of the system on behalf of a peripheral exterior (the users).

If the relays fall there is no network at all.

lemma: i see a circle, servers interior, clients exterior, networked edges overlaid - why the circle?

The bipartite graph is the anti-pattern of decentralization.
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