It means you can make direct connections to devices, to peers, to any other computer *using* the nostr social database.
In other words, what if you could connect to your own node, encrypted and without any setup and from anywhere, just by going through nostr relays? What if you could share a file with a friend by simply punching in their npub and they accept it? No middle men, no accounts, no subscriptions, no setup.
Honestly, it kind of sounds like how I wish people would use I2P. I2P is already an encrypted overlay network, but it does not have the social graph that nostr does.
And as much as I love I2P, the Social Graph is kind of the killer feature.
It’s a shame i2p doesn’t get used more
You're preaching to the choir, dawg.
Why do you need 30 relays just to share files?
E2EE messaging already a thing?
You don't need the relays to share files, just to establish a connection with any one of them without needing networking setup or port forwarding etc.
It's about establishing a connection without needing a DNS authority, a middleman confirming identities, or a database of static IP addresses and the like.
It's like LNC but over nostr. You obviously dont need 1000s of lightning nodes to connect to your wallet, but using lightning to connect to your wallet is *way* better than having to use Tor
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