rossbates on Nostr: nostr is multicast, not broadcast. people want nostr to be "twitter without the ...
nostr is multicast, not broadcast.
people want nostr to be "twitter without the censorship" without understanding that the very architecture that enables censorship resistance changes the delivery guarantees.
multicast is more resilient than broadcast because you can propagate information without requiring guaranteed delivery to every node.
decide what matters more to you, perfect delivery or censorship resistance.
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