This mostly boils down to the ancient thin server/thin client discussion.
If you look at it from a trust perspective however a thin relay makes more sense because how does a relay know what i, as the end-user, considers worthy of my attention. Specifically if the relays filter stuff that i am not aware of.
It's a bit the same like email. While most servers actively filter spam emails it's still embedded into most clients as well. However that also lead us to the point where running your own email server becomes a problem as it is now centralized around the big 3 cloud providers that will just actively block half the ip-address space on the internet because those mostly generated spam.
Looking at it from a real-life perspective, social interactions are always p2p so i think striving towards that goal seems to make the most sense.
Jeroen Ubbink
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2024-09-24 05:31:28
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