0 sats \ 6 replies \ @supratic 4 Feb \ parent \ on: [meta] Renewing ~econ(?) econ
correct, why not just running a relay instead of maintaining a db?
Running a relay is maintaining a db
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maybe is just my believe, am not technical enough to dive into details. my current behavior is that one (SN is using) is centralized. nostr relays are decentralized. True is that a single relay could be run on a c entrilized manner too and being disconnected form the netwrok. would it make sense? probably not, or not for me at least.
However, I trust that the SN ranking engine/algorithm (whatever you want to call it) could be run on over a SN relay somehow, notes got zaps too
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nostr relays are decentralized
No, they are not. There is no federation between relays dictated by the protocol, if that's what you mean. Relays are just servers maintaining a database. Just like SN. The only major difference might be that they use websockets instead of HTTP for communication.1
What makes nostr decentralized is that there are many relays and clients can choose to which relays they want to connect.
However, I trust that the SN ranking engine/algorithm (whatever you want to call it) could be run on over a SN relay somehow, notes got zaps too
I tried to explain in the post you quoted and here in more detail how I don't think that's as simple as you might think