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Sounds like p2p with supernodes, like the GNUTELLA network (limewire) used.
by beaconstudios 5y ago
Sounds like p2p with supernodes, like the GNUTELLA network (limewire) used.
- dogma1138 5y agoIt doesn’t seem like the relays on Nostr sync with each other and each relay operator can choose which content is hosted on it. The link to the content isn’t global it’s still relay/post the client just searches for a given post within its list of relays. The content is then served through a specific relay which hosts it so basically directly from a server. So this isn’t a supernode topology or server P2P of any kind. GNUTELLA supernodes were used to limit the number of peering connections that each client on the network had to maintain and organize the network into a manageable topology this is necessary from a technical perspective and any P2P network solves this problem in some manner that turns a fully meshed network into some sort of leaf and spine topology. This is basically needed to ensure that any client on the network can reach any other client reliably and to ensure that the network can support large number of clients without needing to coordinate peering globally across the entire network. If you build a P2P network where peering is just a randomized best effort mesh between all clients it would rather quickly break into a bunch of rather isolated networks as peninsulas and then islands would form.
- easrng 5y agoSeems more like torrent trackers to me.