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ODELL | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +18 
 I wonder what tradeoffs will be made in the name of nostr ‘mass adoption’
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greshev | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 I relay don’t know how relays will handle real traffic. some of them are already overloaded
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deactivated | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 There’s likely a ton of optimization to be had at the relays. Things like caching, read replicas, and so on.
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QW | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Client to client I’m sure there will many flavors of trade off
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Cipherhoodlum | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What do you have in mind?
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marlo | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 every major relay will censor undesirable political or scientific opinions. 

then people will say “but the protocol layer hasn’t been censored”

Sure, and the first amendment hasn’t been struck down.
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josh | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What do you think they will be / are?
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awayslice | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 maybe i’m missing it, but i don’t see a way to stop/limit spammers.  

feels like we could get crowded out by noise pretty easily.
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AviBurra | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Three ugly and somewhat possible ones are

1. Client/relay level censorship
2. Shitcoinery
3. Client/relay level surveillance
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cesar | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I’ve been thinking a bit about this. I think the protocol and relay implementations lend themselves to horizontal scalability.  Just a hunch but the db models I’ve seen are very simple so it’s likely easy to setup some very good replication with the DB tools we have at our fingers.  I do kind of want to try it just for kicks.