Oddbean

It’s not good. We want decentralization so that nostr is censorship resistant. It’s better to have many smaller nodes. The issue is that the clients don’t work well with a large number of small nodes. For example, Damus recommends 10 or fewer. If you can only connect to a limited number of nodes, then you will choose the largest ones so that you can maximize your reach. If everyone chooses the largest nodes, then we have increasing centralization… which isn’t good.

Also on this, people won't want to their previous content pruned. Using the ole twatter as an example, a lot of people relish in conversations they've had with people, revert back to them for future discussions, etc. Or imagine a nostr version of Facebook or Instagram where pictures self-destruct. If that is their expected behavior for a social media service, do you think they are going to accept that note where they ratioed and drug Mark Cuban to be gone forever? Or do you think Grandma Bettie is going to be cool with photo albums of her grandkids just disappearing. We keep seeing that they want mainstream usage or adoption but these are some basic ass user expectations.