To me the entire protocol seems like a slightly shittier reinvention of the fedi approach; centralize what some people would consider hard to decentralize, assu

To me the entire protocol seems like a slightly shittier reinvention of the fedi approach; centralize what some people would consider hard to decentralize, assume there's enough willing souls to run the centralized technology and pray that you don't end up with one big default who can exclude all the others. The problem is that you get the Tor exit node problem with this approach - being a relay means becoming the toxic sewage plant of the network in this way. Running a Tor exit node basically means arranging for the authorities to try and bust you down because someone tried to get unencrypted CP over your exit node. (Running between nodes over Tor is marginally safer since you'll only be handling partial requests but still not recommended for much of the same reasons.) Now, Tor is perfectly functional since some countries have relaxed laws for that sorta thing, but Tors data transfer is also transient - an exit node does not store anything long-term. Nostr's relays on the other hand need to do long-term data retention. I wonder how long that will last outside of flagship/VC-backed instances.