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Re:The problem with federated web apps by lazzlazzlazz on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:56PM (#36557023)
Nostr does not solve this. There is not "one big Nostr" network because there is no consensus across the network. Your view of Nostr is whatever the peers that you connect with say it is, and they have little reason at the limit to share with each other or to be honest with you.

Nostr is just going in circles with federated networks all over again.

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Re:The problem with federated web apps by leesalminen on Saturday July 01, 2023 @09:37PM (#36557298)
> Your view of Nostr is whatever the peers that you connect with

Clients don’t connect to peers on nostr. They connect to relays.

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Re:The problem with federated web apps by lazzlazzlazz on Sunday July 02, 2023 @06:56AM (#36560253)
Relays are peers in Nostr. They're supposed to share posts with each other and altruistically create a consistent view of the network for their users.
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Re:The problem with federated web apps by leesalminen on Sunday July 02, 2023 @08:05AM (#36560678)
> They're supposed to share posts with each other

Relays are not intended to connect with each other. Clients send notes to relays. Relays store notes and send them back to clients.

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