528 sats \ 2 replies \ @036c1b60f7 12 Oct 2022 freebie \ on: Nostr decentralized social media -- "wow, this can work!" 🧵 nostr
Bullish nostr, relays seem like a good trade of to allow many people to run clients (very light, not much data as all you need are your keys to find the messages associated to yourself) without having one central entity controlling all communication (like Twitter for example) as the relays store and propagate the messages through the network
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45 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthzar 12 Oct 2022
as the relays store and propagate the messages through the network
Small (but important) correction: Nostr is not a federated protocol; relays don't talk to each other whatsoever. [0] Federation is unnecessary, because Nostr makes it extremely easy to post the same message to multiple relays.
[0] = https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#how-does-nostr-work
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @036c1b60f7 12 Oct 2022 freebie
Fair enough, I appreciate the link!
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