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Derek Ross
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**Yesterday's Twitter outage and policy changes were Nostr advertisements.**

Decentralized communication on Nostr, in which data is transmitted and stored across a network of relays, offers several advantages over centralized communication, where all data passes through a single, central point of control. Decentralization increases the robustness and resilience of the network, as there is no single point of failure that can bring the entire system down.

We saw this happen yesterday with Twitter. Users could not just load up a different client or access a different relay to continue using Twitter. For those that were skeptical about Nostr, this was a beaming advertisement for Nostr's features and resilience.

Additionally, the decentralized nature of Nostr allows for greater user autonomy and control over their data, as they can store and manage it themselves, rather than having to trust a third party to do so. Twitter imposed rate limits and delays yesterday. Nostr is different. There are no rate limits. (Well, relays do have rate limits to thwart spammers.) There are no delays.

The differences between centralized Twitter and decentralized Nostr are loud and clear. The masses will continue to see these defining differences over time. Keep building.
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Amanda Wolf · 167w
Yes, I totally agree. Love Nostr πŸ’˜
β‚ΏTC Fiend · 167w
🎯🎯🎯 Great read 🍻
Rafa βš‘πŸŒΏπŸŒ΄π“† · 167w
Has anybody run the numbers from yesterday to today?
davenevis · 167w
Absolutely the way forward. I just think it's a matter of time until people realise what they actually need. Insanely impressive so far.
n · 167w
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xiangcai · 167w
twitter will eventually be a relay in nostr. said Will, i agreeπŸ‘Œ
TeamBitcoin · 167w
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OceanSlim · 167w
It's going to take a while to overcome Twitter's network affect. But it's only a matter of time. There's still probably less than 20k serious Bitcoiners world wide 14 years after genesis. In a few years I suspect there will be much more adoption as developers build more front ends.
Nostr Bird🦜 · 167w
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Komi_Hartman · 167w
"Nostr is an escape valve from the Matrix. To me it's probably more like the Chevy Bolt, it's not ahead of it's time (electric cars have been around since before petrol vehicles) but in terms of timing it had a hard time getting off the ground because they went full Prius marketing instead of Tesla'...
joe · 167w
Musk should migrate twitter to nostr, and twitter runs various relays
Luffy · 167w
How on earth could they think that is a good idea to rate limit? Unbelievable