We tend to defer too much to corporations and influencers (which are icons of centralization) smtp didn’t fail. People are short sighted. If nostr fails in that direction, it won’t have been the protocol, it will have been the people.

Either private relays that would penalize users introducing spam Or some proof of work/ cost introduction. Cost itself will not prevent it but rather reduce volume.

It's very simple For example The government provides security but we all have to take security precautions to help ourselves So everyone should learn how to protect themselves, identify spam account report them to the protocole and everyone can block them individually Like there should be li...

Unfortunately it will likely face the same challenges as other federated protocols. Moxie had a great talk about this in 2021: https://youtu.be/DdM-XTRyC9c?feature=shared

Definitely the close association with payments (zaps and Cashu tokens). Must easier to impose a cost and/or generate revenue. Also, keeping the relays as dumb as possible, similar to dumb internet routers that can’t inspect packets.

Similar to other comments, some sort of payment required to use. Via Cashu could be pretty cheap and easy.

Web of Trust is old. Nothing about Nostr indicates Web of Trust will work today if it didn't work before - and by work, I mean scale to meaningful adoption. There are both UX and incentive problems, and both lead to a Web of Trust naturally deteriorating into a centralized model where users trust fe...

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It doesn't. Everyday people will not run a relay. Just like many people don't run a node. The market for NOSTR is very niche and based on idealism, not practicality. If NOSTR is going to stay a sub-sub-sub-sub-culture within a sub-sub-culture, then it needs more users: - Running relays - Improv...

People complain that "not everybody will run a relay", well, why is that? Because the architecture of the network and the UX of the software doesn't automatically do it for them. Why is running a relay not automatic when running a client? It could be. Every client could be a relay.

Is the list of people you follow also a list of people you trust? Mine isn’t… Ring 0 is me. Ring 1 is people I trust enough to help me recover my life savings. Ring 2 is friends and family that didn’t make it to ring 1. Ring 3 is people whose opinions/memes/shitposts I’m interested in r...

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I'm more interested in taking that control back. It centralized due to cost, not spam. Spamassassin is a very effective open source tool. The problem now is everyone blocks port 25 (cloud providers) so we're forced to "relay" through sendgrid/mailchimp. These days 1GB of storage costs $1/mo. Anyone ...

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The fact setting a mail server is a pain in the ass, but a nostr relay is basically "plug & play" meaning almost everyone can deploy a personal relay.