Your relay isn’t magical. It only allows you to see what people post to it.
This would work if each user had a separate “home relay” and only posted there. Each client connect to as many relays as people you follow.
In practice pretty much everyone post to the same dozen relays, multiple relays at a time.
So these relays can easily manipulate what you see — no matter if you run your own relay.
If you decide only to post to your own relay, then people will likely never see it. If you post to other relays too then people will have little incentive to keep an expensive connection to yours (esp on their phones which is how 99% will ise Nostr).
Saying “use your own relay and shill it” is like saying “create your own platform” — completely impractical.
The problem has never been finding *somewhere* to host your content — the problem is if people will actually see it.
Nostr adds absolutely no new tech or incentive that didn’t exist 15 years ago when Twitter was becoming dominant — there’s just no breakthrough in it — and you can expect things to turn out exactly the same way unless some other thing that isn’t Nostr affects the outcome.
The *one* thing that is different this time is that now Lightning Network exists — if Nostr clients are faster to integrate LN reliably and attract users than legacy social media, that might change incentives enough to change the bigger picture— but that’s wild speculation, and again has nothing to do with Nostr specifically.
Nostr is just RSS but with JSON+WebSocket instead of XML+HTTP.
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2023-02-18 20:09:25
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