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 I’m rolling around a metaphor in my mind for legacy social media platforms vs #nostr clients - let me know if it makes sense:

If legacy platforms are aquariums…
Then Nostr clients are glass-bottom boats…

If legacy servers are tanks…
Then Nostr relays are currents…?

Hmm 🤔 🐠 Still grappling with the best way to break this down for less techie folks. #grownostr 
 It’s crazy to think about, right? 
 Nostr is a pond of knowledge and media. Clients are like straws? 
 This is pretty good 👍 
Maybe compare to another pond with only one straw and a guard policing who gets to use the straw. 
 Bitcoin - nodos
Nostr - relays

Así seria 
 Nostr is where weirdos hangout. 
 It’s platforms vs protocols 

If traditional social media are walled gardens… then nostr is the open universe… 

 …do what you will, be yourself, retain your privacy… it’s that simple 
 The glass bottom boat analogy works for me, another spin: legacy social media are all walled gardens, noster is a blimp surveying it all from above. Needs work… 
 It's to explain relays. But what I see managing servers for a long time and giving accounts to friends and families is that with relays they don't need me to create accounts, reset passwds anymore. And I can't delete an account if I fight with some friend or whatever. 
 What I mean is that it's much better than the fediverse, because on fediverse people still depend on some servers. 
 Right - it’s a little hard for people to grasp that this isn’t like mastodon or discord. But that’s the key difference - decentralized, user-controlled. 
 Was thinking about this earlier.

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