This a common question: if you need to use a bridge between browsers and Mainline DHT then how is this better than Nostr relays?
1. Native apps obviously are a thing, and arguably they are giving the web a run for it's money, so why dismiss that?
2. relays/resolvers for Pkarr are not only useful for browsers, they also add some reliability and reduce the load on Mainline which then becomes like the DNS root servers
3. Finally to your point, the upside is that you as an app developer can use your own relay to support your browser customers, and I can use my own relay to support my users, and both our relays are going to magically connect, not by gossiping with untrusted strangers, and not by forming private swarms, but by simply using Mainline as the backbone.
Nuh 🔻
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2024-10-30 19:18:55
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