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₿en Wehrman · 2w
This is the third or fourth time we've seen a MASSIVE wave of attention hitting the social media censorship problem worldwide—enough to catalyze MILLIONS to delete a major legacy app and download a ...
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Nostr isn't ready for an influx like this first of all. Relays would fall down, and how would clients handle posts with 30k likes? We need to figure out caching and aggregation strategies that are better than just checking all relays. And unfortunately this is hard to do without centralization. There are lots of unsolved problems, decentralization is hard.
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the axiom · 2w
on the other hand client developers aren't going to optimize anything until they see shit happening
franzap · 2w
We are probably overthinking the decentralization. Just being able to switch from one relay to another is an order of magnitude better than centralized platforms already. I say bring them on. When everything starts breaking down we'll be forced to solve real world problems as opposed to eternal bike...
0x07AD · 2w
Decentralized gopher servers (nodes) ultimately used centralized indexing servers or clients to make externally-hosted content searchable and retrievable. Maybe something similar is needed to make finding content across nostr relays similarly easy and familiar.
Raison d'État · 2w
The technology as it stands can handle it, IF it remains decentralised and if we accept it becoming increasingly subculture-fragmented like #Fediverse. The supply of "Uncle Jims" able to spin up new relays is the bottleneck, but #Nostr has a major edge over Fediverse there - simpler relays with les...
Danish · 2w
I am not a developer so can't understand how much effort in this direction, but do you think without having such influx, clients will ever be tested for that?
Jalmoud | جلمود 🇵🇸 · 2w
Would a hybrid approach work? Centralize the likes, follows.... etc and decentralized the more critical stuff?