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Not only is Nostr relays are orders of magnitudes fewer, and less time tested. and dns dependent. They are also not cheap to run AND have a conflict of interest since they double as service providers This is the Mastodon and even Email fault, where the service providers can boycott and censor other providers. But Mainline is cheap, extremely redundant and have no interest whatsoever in what is published on it. They don't compete with the services that are published on it. This is significant in my opinion, you can't dismiss all of this merely as difference of degree... at some point it becomes difference in kind.

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I agree with that first stuff: fewer, less time tested, dns dependent (you can specify IP addresses though). And even worse you can only have one endpoint, and you can't change it without losing the relay's reputation. I think they are cheap to run though. And don't have to also be service providers. I wrote chorus to be a personal relay so everybody could be on their own personal relay. Sounds like you are arguing for decoupling resolution from service providing, and providing resolution where it can't be boycotted/censored. Sure you did that. But at some point there has to be a service provider so the problem is just conveniently pushed over to them. You can change providers in Nostr and Email both, but not Mastodon.