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Lyn Alden
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol "SMTP" ended up being rather captured/centralized toward an oligopoly over time in an effort to manage spam.

Here's another #asknostr for today:

What aspects of Nostr's design will make it more resistant to that fate? The social graph web of trust element?
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Cyber Seagull · 84w
Early on in conversations about the design of email, anti spam techniques such as having each send incur a cost was, suggested. This was rebuffed and lead to the surveilance capitalist distopia we see today. Nostr is resistant to this by virtue of its early integration of V4V. Zaps. I It's an "ea...
zach · 84w
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