To clean things up, we need a different barrier to entry: we need a decentralised Nostr that's usable by newbies with a bit minimal technical skills straight out of the box. In other words, not a client for someone else's services (relay), but a single application that connects locally to a network, bypassing NAT as best it can, acting as both client and server (relay). The user shouldn't have to worry about relay lists, only about how much storage and bandwidth they're willing to give to the network.
This is what made eMule and KAD so successful, and it's exactly what we need today, from file sharing to sharing text-based information in a new web that's no longer client-server or heavily dependent on browsers.
I fear, however, that many modern devs don't understand or even know this model, having been born and raised on the broken IT of Big Tech. Consequently, they can't work in a world that's unknown to them because, even with all the right skills, they still lack the awareness of a different model, its necessity, and the opportunity it presents.
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2026-03-06 08:55:17 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…cd82
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npub17n2m7v30w732zh0uded9ql3mvaws3t6306j0avtvrxjz7lay2n8qa0pnwfPublished at
2026-03-06 08:55:17 UTCEvent JSON
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