Dan / is on Nostr

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2025-05-21 21:42:30

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To users of Twitter, the site feels like a single cohesive communication network, where everyone basically has access to everyone else. Not so at all, in nostr, if the user count gets too high.

2025-05-21 20:30:00

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I don't think so...

2025-05-21 20:28:22

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People would be forced to scatter across many relays that have pretty zero cross communication. Stuff from relay A will generally not make its way to relay B unless the poster just luckily is connected to both relays, which is highly unlikely in a 1B users situation.

2025-05-21 20:25:36

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The interconnectness of all the relays is the problem. If 1B users came to current day nostr, most people would fail to receive most notes.

2025-05-21 19:19:10

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I agree nostr can be more than "just Twitter", but my point is that nostr still fails at scaling which is certainly not something to brag about. It's definitely not a jet yet.

2025-05-21 18:14:36

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You're right, but currently Twitter scales and nostr doesn't.

2025-05-21 18:12:01

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If everyone on Twitter decided to come over to nostr tomorrow, nostr would choke. It's not made to scale, and that's a problem that could be rectified but nobody is paying any attention to scalability right now.

2025-05-21 18:07:16

Why did #nostr give up on the dream of becoming "#Decentralized #Twitter"? #asknostr