There have got to be models by which a relay (DB) can plug in as a shard into a larger system.
Nostr is open, so in theory each relay can be independent. That's what makes it decentralized. But if a client wants a picture of a greater portion of the network, you need to be able to index across relays.
Farcaster tried to solve this by just forcing each node to sync with all the others, but that seems to expensive to scale.
MichaelJ
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2025-05-23 15:47:46
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