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2022-12-24 05:58:02 UTC

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Ok, to give an example specifically for public social media
If Twitter was built on Nostr, most people would still use the official client and the official server/relay and be exposed to the same content and interactions. Nothing changes here
What changes is that now I can start a new Twitter with 10x less effort

2022-12-24 05:53:37 UTC

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To me, the value of cheap/free infrastructure is that when you *really* need something better than the default, you can go and have it
Cheap infrastructure lowers the bar

2022-12-24 05:47:24 UTC

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Eg. take open source — yeah, Chrome (well, Chromium) is open source, but the absolute majority of people still use Chrome builds. So what. We still got a thousand projects built on Chromium that couldn’t be built otherwise

2022-12-24 05:46:16 UTC

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I really started appreciating “building better infrastructure” recently so I’m not worried
Like, if we live in a world where social media is decentralized by default, that’s already going to be awesome

2022-12-24 05:02:16 UTC

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(Or from auto-adding relays, yeah, but I feel like that won’t scale)

2022-12-24 05:01:28 UTC

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This depends on whether we end up with “relays are communities” or “relays are relays”
If somebody wants nostr to become a higher-level backbone for a bunch of diverse social media services, I feel like it’s impossible to get away from relays talking to each other

2022-12-24 04:46:01 UTC

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I suppose one of these will happen:
- most people will be on the same few relays
- or relays will have to start talking to each other
- or someone will get tired and create a single relay that aggregates a bunch of other relays (same as the first point I suppose)
- or “relay = community” will take off

2022-12-24 04:02:50 UTC

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“…how thick is wall?”