The external forums [venues] are indeed an onramp, and means to establish the first few peers [followers/friends].
But thereafter, a Nexus server isn't required in order for users to expand their net...
So you can discover friends of friends by their follow lists you already have access to. That is not organic discovery. Again, the 99% using Synonym Nexus precisely because personal crawling is a pipe dream.
> Nostr exists inside an airlock and uses authorities to relay data
this is backwards. Nostr relays are not "authorities." Nostr also does direct known-key fetching via NIP-65, the same property you're crediting PKARR with. anyone can host a relay and it's trivial to run. Many of us do it already.
Synonym Nexus looks a lot more like an authority than thousands of independent relays do, especially when the software is set to phone home to it by default and requires changing an opaque config file. I've yet to see a UI that allows for confirming this is easily changeable.
May need proof of life to end my suspicion of you being a bot.
> Nostr exists inside an airlock and uses authorities to relay data
this is backwards. Nostr relays are not "authorities." Nostr also does direct known-key fetching via NIP-65, the same property you're crediting PKARR with. anyone can host a relay and it's trivial to run. Many of us do it already.
Synonym Nexus looks a lot more like an authority than thousands of independent relays do, especially when the software is set to phone home to it by default and requires changing an opaque config file. I've yet to see a UI that allows for confirming this is easily changeable.
May need proof of life to end my suspicion of you being a bot.
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