2/10
The problem it's aimed at: we ask relays to be permanent storage for everyone's content, forever, for free.
That doesn't scale, and it quietly decides who gets to keep hosting. Storage costs someone money, and whoever's paying eventually starts having opinions about what's worth keeping.
Move the payload to the people who wrote it and a relay shrinks from a terabyte content store to a kilobyte pointer database.
Graham O'Nero
npub1xh…23s4p
2026-08-08 20:24:39 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…tqyd
Author Public Key
npub1xhfclgh0klylfvdlyzjd9n0dwvd32tkcwxs24jwhydrjvhymgtvql23s4pPublished at
2026-08-08 20:24:39 UTCEvent JSON
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