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I know exactly what you are saying. But I don't care about Mainline vs Nostr. I only care about the technical details of Mainline because DHTs have too much bad reputation and I guess I am a bit autistic about it. You said that a certain 3 nodes are necessary, they are NOT, and there aren't any specific ones that are necessary. This is strictly better and different in kind from mere redundancy of servers. It is a self healing mesh. That is not special though, Bitcoin p2p gossip and every overlay network is this way.

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Ok. Thanks. I didn't mean "a certain 3" but I see how it could be taken that way. But again same in nostr, you don't need to use purplepag.es to get started. From any relay you can discover many others and then find people's relay lists scattered about. It is a self-healing mesh too. Uglier and less certain, but not on a different order of censorability. Unless you are using primal (so I hear, I don't use it).