I'm not technically inclined enough to catch these nuances but that made sense the way you explained it.

I tend to think along the lines of what is written here, #776163, where relay data permanence and the notion of "decentralization" are called into question wrt nostr. Also, discoverability is unintuitive at best.

winning protocol

Oh yeah - there is like an army of influencers out there shilling it like crazy while I've not ever seen much tangible proofs of what could ever warrant this level of enthusiasm.

That said, I do find it very encouraging that these days the advantages afforded by emergent tech tends to be inverted^[1], compared to the past where it was the government and their agencies doing the r/d (think internet, tor etc..) Protocols being developed by ordinary programmers, seen from this lens, seems an improvement.

As a user of their protocol, I have my gripes, although I try to stay away from having a strong opinion, since there's lots going on that I don't see/understand. Tor network is almost 30 years old and is neither widely appreciated, nor very well understood by the mainstream, although it certainly has its use cases....

1. see the post I shared yesterday by Andrej Karpathy here #937619 ↩