As long as 1 relay exist who accepts you your data will persist and people anywhere can get it with their original username
That seems a little better than Lemmy, but the relays still hold too much power as you still have to go through someone else’s relay or host your own (just like with Lemmy instances).
I wonder if there’s a way to make it completely decentralized like Bitcoin so that it’s on blockchain?
Blockchains are a poor database for social media. They are extremely slow, overly complicated. And it’s Just a immutable data structure. That’s really why every attempt to use one for anything but currency has failed.
They don’t really offer anything a Nostr relay doesn’t either.
Both of them work off private keys to verify ownership.
Both of them are decentralized. But Blockchain sizes are huge. Each node is terribytes in size
Unlike block chains, nostr is super easy to develop for and can scale very well.
You could make it more decentralized by adding in some peer to peer tech. But even torrents need trackers. Which is basically a relay.
That seems a little better than Lemmy, but the relays still hold too much power as you still have to go through someone else’s relay or host your own (just like with Lemmy instances).
I wonder if there’s a way to make it completely decentralized like Bitcoin so that it’s on blockchain?
Blockchains are a poor database for social media. They are extremely slow, overly complicated. And it’s Just a immutable data structure. That’s really why every attempt to use one for anything but currency has failed.
They don’t really offer anything a Nostr relay doesn’t either.
Both of them work off private keys to verify ownership.
Both of them are decentralized. But Blockchain sizes are huge. Each node is terribytes in size
Unlike block chains, nostr is super easy to develop for and can scale very well.
You could make it more decentralized by adding in some peer to peer tech. But even torrents need trackers. Which is basically a relay.
Gotcha, makes sense