Compute moves in cycles like everything else. Centralised > decentralised > centralised > decentralised.

Mainframes (C) > PCs (D) > Cloud (C) > …

Nodes is the next wave. Just as people cut cords on cable TV, they’re going to cut streaming - likely when the economy goes to shit and western governments take their censorship too far.

This will be done on home media servers. You can get a Dell server at home today fully decked out for $300 - project this out 10 years. Umbrel/Start9 are the Napster of this wave - it’s only gonna get easier and better to run this shit yourself.

It’s hard to see when the tech today is finicky and niche but Nostr will be baked in. Users wont know they’re spinning up relays, they’ll just be creating groups for these concentric circles and the relays will be baked in to the software.

The nostr.com.au relay we run by this time ought fulfil the nation level usecase. We’ll be the new mainstream so people will prefer their lower level localised relays but use the higher levels just for info.