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SAME IN NOSTR. My point isn't that DHT is BAD. My point is NOSTR IS NOT WORSE. Hear my point, not the adjacent one you think I'm arguing.
Mike Dilger ☑️'s avatar Mike Dilger ☑️
IF you don't know about any nodes (because you are a brand new user), AND you can't access these three hardcoded one, THEN you are fucked. No I'm not saying that anybody could ever do better than that. Even in theory I don't think you can do better than that. What I *AM* saying is that nostr is on the same order of uncensorability as this is. That is, IF you don't know about any relays (because you are a brand new user) THEN you are fucked.
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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.