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@ calvadev⚡️
2025-02-12 23:48:11
The main tradeoff to consider and/or break out of comes down to accepting some data silos versus getting content discovery and facing censorship. The solutions that I mentioned are simple and probably get most of the job done, but they also generally put new users at a disadvantage in terms of being discovered (even with outbox support since relays would be more "locked down") and make it harder for existing users to discover new content. On the other side, we would have great tools to find new stuff and discover new communities, but might have to face off against a lot of pressure to shut down relays or feed everything into a data collection machine in order to monitor content, and that's definitely not a ideal.
The good thing is that, as users, we have the ability to run our own relays and decide our own content fetching/storage/moderation policies, and that's ultimately why I think Nostr-based applications and infrastructure will win out against it all. The tools to do so just need to get more accessible (which they are) and consumer behavior needs to change (which it slowly is).