The Fishcake🐶🐾 @The Fishcake🐶🐾 - 1y
I think many people have vastly different definitions of “decentralized”. When we talk decentralization, we should consider what good balance between cost, convenience and accountability we should apply. Take an average user of the nostr. Let’s say the use Snort, or Primal. The client is owned by one entity, relay (default one) is also owned by the same entity (snort has multiple but has its own too), media is owned by default by the same entities. In one perspective this is not a well decentralized approach by default but it’s OK for majority of the users. With Primal the wallet is technically owned by Strike on iOS, and Snort doesn’t have default (AFAIK). Amethyst or Damus on the other hand, may be considered more decentralized. Damus client, Damus relay (default) with several others, media is hosted by two different entities (NB, nostrimg). Amethyst client, no default self-owned relays (AFAIK), media is nip-96 with a lot of choices. I think that Damus and Amethyst are in good shape for the purposes of decentralization, since they can’t truly manipulate the full user experience. I guess what I am trying to say is, you don’t have to have distributed and decentralized layers as long as each layer is not under control by the same entity. Alternative becomes more complicated and less accessible, not even talking cost of maintaining one. #showerthoughts 🐶🐾🫡
Your own relay will be only useful to the people who are reading/writing from/to it. Relay by definition is central to the people it is trying to connect. As long as your relay has the right people and it is controlled independently from the rest of the layers, you are in good place 🐶🐾🫡
It’s all the matter of compromise and cost. We are nowhere near the level of being able to afford something accessible and resilient. Plus NB is not the only game in town, there are at least 5-10 well established media hosts. And they are being used. You might have missed the time when nostrimg.com domain expired and caused a bit of blank notes 🐶🐾🫡
I didn’t mean to equate them, I just wanted to specify two most commonly used web clients. I am aware that Snort is completely different and much more decentralized. 🐶🐾🫂
