> Advocates of each of these projects of course would dispute this, pointing out that you could always self-host, or somehow avoid depending on their semi-official infrastructure, but the truth is that if you're not on bluesky.app or warpcast.com, you don't exist, and nobody cares that you don't exist. Aren’t nostr adepts of mythical outbox who consider anything server side to be an evil centralization from “them” saying the same things? “No one guarantees relays keep your posts but you can always selfhost and no one will care about you and this is a good thing because Nostr is a pure signal and we don’t need stupid normies here!”

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The mistake is in thinking everyone _should_ care about everything and therefore everyone _must_ see everything. Outbox/Inbox ensures that you can see and interact with what is important to you, and ignore the rest. Smaller relays gives people the ability to have access to a wide range of npubs, but focus on their own cluster and store their own data, by creating a system of hops. I can move events from the Citrine relay on my phone to fiatjaf's personal relay, just by including an @ to his npub, in the note. It's like a mailing address. That's why we refer to the system as "mailboxes". I don't need to know what else is on his relay. I would just need to see his response, sent to my address.