M. Dilger on Nostr: A few days back this long thread #[0] discussed the gossip model and how people would ...
A few days back this long thread
People who do not support, do not care about or never heard about the "gossip model" -- which is basically the idea that clients should (mostly) automatically find people in wherever relays they are and fetch their notes from these relays -- here is a question for you:
What would happen if everybody is following Alex Jones on the 10 biggest relays, but they all collude to ban Alex Jones? Then Alex Jones starts publishing on a relatively tiny relay hosted in Colombiat. How can Nostr fulfill its censorship-resistant promises in this situation? Would all of his millions of Nostr followers have to manually open their settings and add his new relay address?
discussed the gossip model and how people would deal with the censorship of Alex Jones. I don't think I participated in the thread, being weary of the topic. Instead I have written a webpage stating my position so that in the future I can just point people at the webpage:
https://mikedilger.com/gossip-model/Published at
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