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semisol | 22 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +3 
 or can they? :) nostr:note189n6ynyudsluqw9w70yp6sk8lyuhkp00jlrpn244zdewru683xyszztzfq
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Alex Gleason šŸ | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I think you can. Is Bitcoin decentralized? Yet everyone's balance is known. If everybody crawls and downloads the whole network, it can be decentralized and have accurate counts.
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Derek Ross | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You don't know how many people are using it though.
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semisol | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Nostr is inherently different.

It has long term identities at its core.
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JackTheMimic | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The fact that I can make a personal relay, whitelist my friends and have them ONLY connect to my node means you can never know ACCURATE user count.
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semisol | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yes but that may as well be irrelevant in user counts.

Also, they probably use public relays too for a public presence
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Derek Ross | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Probably sounds a lot like guessing šŸ˜
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semisol | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Not really.

Anyone who uses Nostr for private use also would realize the benefit of switching to it for a public presence.
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Derek Ross | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Are you able to count all of those relays in China behind the firewall? šŸ˜‚
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mainvolume | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Please do send me socket street address and happy to tag the building manager for money making purposes. 
Thanks https://image.nostr.build/fc5e79f5d225820ecb56060ccff46682ab09b9da1419417f382c5bd76ca4dad5.jpg
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pamplemousse šŸ«Ž | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yay šŸ„³ Iā€™m learning šŸ˜‚šŸ«”

How many alts do entities have? How many are #AI already? Bot šŸ¤– farms are prevalent everywhere. Narrative warfare never takes a break. 

Hence conservationists & pollinators. 

https://media.tenor.com/RYE0A6mGhpEAAAAC/definitely-maybe-romance.gif
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JackTheMimic | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Who's to say my 100-1000 friends aren't a relevant user base? I have unannounced lightning channels with private people are those transactions not valid? 

(I am talking about specific Npubs for that relay as a sort of club chat) using a public relay would get your Npub Blacklisted.
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Alex Gleason šŸ | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You would use relay hints inside of events to discover new relays automatically. Then you connect to those and keep downloading and crawling. Similar to how Google crawlers use links to find the whole web. Primal's Nostr crawler does this.ā€‹
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semisol | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Last time I checked it was hardcoded
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JackTheMimic | 22 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Nope. Lol
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timosolo | 20 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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