Nature’s Many Attempts to Evolve a Nostr

Highlights

  • Nostr is Relay Architecture:
    • Relays are simple. They use boring technology, like plain old servers. You benefit from all of the tailwinds of traditional app development.
    • Relays take advantage of economies of scale. Big dumb servers in the cloud have high availability and high uptime, and they’re commodity infrastructure.
    • Relays sidestep the N^2 scaling problem: Relays don’t talk to each other, and users only need to join a few relays, and will probably join less than a dozen. We never really hit the scale where the n^2 scaling problem matters.
    • Relays support user-ownership. Users own their data, own their account, and most importantly, they own their keys. If a relay goes down or shuts you down, no problem! Your account doesn’t change, and your data is mirrored to other relays. Credible exit!

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