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 I don't understand the hype about nostr, it's not really a decentralized application because all the posts are saved in the relays you are connected to. A truly decentralized application is an application with a distributed database, meaning that the data is saved in different data phases around the world randomly and, if possible, encrypted. 

Here is an example of what a distributed network is.

https://www.hyphanet.org/