15 sats \ 2 replies \ @mallardshead 23 Feb 2023 \ on: Could scaling Nostr actually kill it? nostr
I don't know. Nostr I think will become something different than Twitter et al. Maybe something we don't fully expect. I see a nascent marketplace forming there already. This could get wild if you bring something like Slashtags or other decentralized reputation. To me the future of desirable and entertaining content requires high performance [non-relational] databasing to do all the cool stuff, like snippets of 8k video, complex animations, gaming in app, api's, Ai, etc. Twitter is an entertainment platform as much as it is anything else, and they use a high performance database architecture by Redis, very badass, and Nostr can't compete with that. They would need some serious innovation. Like mining pools except relay pools where they balance, process data in parrallel, and shard. Think MongoDB. And instead of blockspace you might have fixed advertising space. This funds relays. Maybe pays content creators. I don't know, but the innovation would have to be nearly on par with bitcoin. At this point are we just dancing around centralization? Nostr's problem isn't data storage. Its many clients' problem isn't UI/UX. It's database performance. Wen?
Do you have any thoughts on how to have Sybil resistant reputation?
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Holepunch built on Hypercore's append-only architecture possibly. Look into Slashtags by Synonym
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