THIS NOTE IS ONLY INITIALLY BEING PUBLISHED TO MY PERSONAL RELAY. NOSTRICHES WILL FIND IT AND SPREAD IT AROUND THE NETWORK. IT'S BEAUTIFUL. WHY? THIS IS HOW WE BEAT CENSORSHIP. THIS IS HOW WE WIN. DECENTRALIZATION POWERED BY THE OUTBOX MODEL.

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I only published this note to my private and personal relay. For you to see it, you must be using a client that supports the outbox model - at least initially. This means that your client looks at the relays that I'm using because your follow me and then looks at those relays to see if I published anything new there to display in your timeline. If you comment on or share that note, some clients will broadcast the original note to your relays. Both of these tactics help with decentralization and censorship resistance as my content, which was only originally sent to one server, be spread around the internet.
@Derek Ross , thank you for your explanation. The technical process is very interesting. Does anyone know the size of the #nostr user base in the most authoritarian and censorious countries (such as China)?
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Frank 1 year ago
It looks like ReplyGuy approves emphatically.
This note is bothering me because the spreading around part is not the outbox model - it’s actually the opposite. It’s the “old school” broadcast model. Outbox would be everyone reading it just from your relay, not rebroadcasting it all over the place…
still getting a lady off the land. so this is why I'd want to run a nostr relay on my umbrel? my note's visibility is affected by the quality of my relays?
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Damon 1 year ago
Is there documentation for clients to support the outbox model?
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Damon 1 year ago
Thank you very much for this