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5 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 14 Dec \ parent \ on: Which hard problem did nostr solve? nostr
not really, you can't do anything you want on nostr. You still depend on a relay policies, if you do not run your own relay.
I think this is the point where most of people understand it wrongfully: they compare it with twatter.
if you do not run your own relay.
Exactly, IF.
But are most people running their own relay? Could nostr “work”, as in provide a good user experience and/or scale to enough users to actually replace existing social media apps for most, if everyone ran their own relay, to actually achieve the digital freedom nostr wants to provide?
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The mistake are doing people is to use nostr as a new twatter.
I personally use it too, like that (even that I never had a twatter account), but just for fun and have a "public face"...
But the strong capabilities are when you:
- run your own relay(s)
- use your relays for private communication
- use your own relays for your own NWC accounts
- use your own relays or chat rooms like hivetalk or White Noise messenger
- use your own relays when you run your own nostr market
Relays are like billboards : you can make them public or make them private.
A lot of things can happen on private relays and nobody knows about or censor it. THAT is its strong argument.
If everybody run his own relay but make it public, it doesn't achieve too much thing. Is mostly noise.
Not sure if you remember the defunct MS SharePoint... something like that could be nostr, a private intranet but also can be extended to a public extranet.
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The mistake are doing people is to use nostr as a new twatter.
Well, it's literally how nostr describes itself:
The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.
So I think it's fair to measure nostr using it's own measure stick.
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That definition is not the original one, it was adapted to please clueless testers :)
See my 1st comment: #1339243
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