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Nuh · 1w
If I know that I only ever want to do small communities, and private communities, or at least communities that don't care about broadcasting as widely as possible, I wouldn't care about Nostr at all, ...
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> As if what I would do if I absolutely insist on using Nostr [...] until they are indistinguishable from Email

The thing about email is that everybody only uses gmail/icloud/outlook. That's because they are "free". In the past, you had to pay some money for like 5-10MB (ok for the time) of disk space for a mailbox. Now nobody will pay.

If nostr relays become like email, how can they compete with the 15GB free quota Gmail offers?
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Nuh · 1w
1. Nostr doesn't magically solve anything here it just abandons the very minimal expectations that your data doesn't get deleted. 2. You can and people do run their own SMTP servers 3. Many people pay for paid email especially privacy orientated 4. Many competitors offer 15GB for free, to attract u...