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or a lot of money thrown at it 👀
Copy-pasting between my laptop and my phone, hahaha
No, jk, it just sounded interesting to establish "true" p2p connections, where the relay can go offline after the session was established. I didn't have a specific use-case in mind.
I was really interested in using nostr relays for WebRTC signaling; maybe I'll look into that again now that I have time.
But I guess that would require specific support by the relay, so it would only work with nostr relays that support it, so not sure if it makes sense to build something like WebRTC on top of nostr instead of just using WebRTC ...
Does the object storage not run on a server?
It does, but it's not me maintaining it.
Technically, most aren't "running their own servers," because they are just virtual machines in some data center.
No, you don't decide how it gets rendered to me. I do. If I don't like your site I will do things to it. For me.
Fair! I was referring to HTML as a spec for how to render things. If you don't respect it, yes, I can't decide for you. More freedom to you, too!
Ah yes, but I wondered which parts of it you consider poorly designed, since I don't know if we agree on the details.
For me, it's key management, no mechanism to avoid centralization around a particular use-case, and maybe also no optimization for any specific use-case.
What's the significant difference between running my own relay, or hosting my own website?
To host my own website, I don't even need to run a server, I can just use object storage.
I'd even say I have more freedom hosting my own website, because I can decide everything, like how it gets rendered etc.
Nostr clients decide how my content gets rendered.
if you need a comms protocol within the Bitcoin space, nostr is it.
Does most of the important discussion around bitcoin happen on nostr, and not on GitHub or Delving Bitcoin or on the mailing list?
Ownership of your relationships.
What does "ownership of your relationships" mean? How does one "own" a relationship?
but what with control of email by a few large providers and spam filtering, nostr may be a better option by now.
I think nostr will end up not very different from email. I don't see anything built into the protocol to prevent that.
You CAN run your own relay, but most won't, and won't care about you or your relay, and the relays they use won't either. They'll just consider you spam.
Fwiw, I wrote about that a little bit in #950309.
We're talking about cents on the dollar.
Then why not send sats? Does using it require less effort when NGU?
Using cowboy credits is hardly impactful on the adoption of btc
Would you be here if nobody sent you sats, because it's "hardly impactful on the adoption of btc"?
For these individuals I think they will always want identity tied to their person and they don't want to take personal responsibility for their Identity.
Which services tied identity to you as a person, as in scanning your eyeball or fingerprint?
Hasn't it mostly been the case that you give a service an email address and password, and then you are responsible for keeping that password safe, or at least access to your email address so you can set a new password in case you forget it?
The mistake are doing people is to use nostr as a new twatter.
Well, it's literally how nostr describes itself:
The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.
So I think it's fair to measure nostr using it's own measure stick.
if you do not run your own relay.
Exactly, IF.
But are most people running their own relay? Could nostr “work”, as in provide a good user experience and/or scale to enough users to actually replace existing social media apps for most, if everyone ran their own relay, to actually achieve the digital freedom nostr wants to provide?
Digital freedom means to me that I can do whatever I want, and nobody can stop me, but is that really the case on nostr?