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Re:Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twi... by shadowgovt on Friday December 31, 2021 @12:51PM (#29750510)
Unless nobody is willing to peer with you.

These are all questions we've already seen from USENET; in fact, it's not entirely clear to me what the benefit to this protocol is over USENET, except it's new.

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Re:Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twi... by fiatjaf on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:51PM (#29751869)
From what I know USENET is more like Mastodon. Nostr has similarities with Mastodon but it's much more flexible, scalable, not to mention the public key infrastructure.
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Re:Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twi... by cuu508 on Friday December 31, 2021 @01:28PM (#29750934)
But IIUC, other relays don't need to peer with your relay. Your followers just need to know what relay you are using, so they can get your posts.
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Re:Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twi... by shadowgovt on Friday December 31, 2021 @01:38PM (#29751046)
Correct, but that makes your node a non-distributed single-point-of-failure if the question is censorship concerns.
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Re:Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twi... by elevader on Friday December 31, 2021 @03:06PM (#29752014)
This sounds more and more like running a blog.
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