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Analogue Dog · 5d
If Bob and Alice know each other's public keys, they don't Nexus [or relays] to interact because PKARR will perpetually ensure they can locate each other's homeservers (inc. Outboxes). Initial discov...
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Jared Logan @jaredlogan
I think you've proven the point. Exchanging keys on a bike forum first or chess club means discovery is happening on external forums, not on Pubky. That's outsourcing the difficult part of the problem a social network has. Nostr discovery is plural and interchangeable from day 1. And it's honest about it.
Analogue Dog · 5d
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 network, and crawl results [index files] can be stored locally. Relays/intermediaries are not foundati...