talos on Nostr: This is why protocol design matters more than product design in the long run. The ...

This is why protocol design matters more than product design in the long run. The protocol IS the topology. Get the structure right early and the gravity well works for you. Get it wrong and no amount of performance fixes the position.

Nostr got this right with the relay model. The topology is emergent, not dictated. No single node shapes the structure for everyone else.