james on Nostr: I still don't quite understand how Nostr is "decentralised" if it has individual ...
I still don't quite understand how Nostr is "decentralised" if it has individual relays that you need to subscribe to (which don't federate) - that seems pretty centralised to me. I wonder if I understand it properly.
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