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Vic | 27 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 What is a nostr node?
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jb55 | 27 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 a relay or a client with a database
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Scrooge McBitcoin | 27 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 does that mean that some relays don't store any data?
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jb55 | 27 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 the damus notification relay doesn't store any data
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jb55 | 27 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 so by my definition of a "nostr node" the damus notification relay technically isn't a nostr node, since there's no way to sync notes between it and yours. maybe nostr node = node that understands nip77 could be one definition.

this could enable nostr to be more like a p2p network in the future with the right overlay network, with nodes syncing with each other via negentropy. me and martti and a few others have been thinking about this.