>> So you can discover friends of friends by their follow lists you already have access to. That is not organic discovery. I think that is organic discovery. Pubky's elastic semantic social graphing (partly facilitated through content tags) presents a bunch of cool search-realted features; for example: If I want to buy Apples, but none of my connections sell apples, I can search the indexes cached by my connections to find the Pubky's of anybody they know who sells Apples. This does not require a Nexus server. >> Again, the 99% using Synonym Nexus precisely because personal crawling is a pipe dream. Personal crawling is a pipe dream on Nostr because implementation would need concensus, and right now there isn't even consensus to allow a user to edit or delete a post. There is no reason why mesh requires a large directory server needs to be Synonym or Nexus. > Nostr exists inside an airlock and uses authorities to relay data >>> this is backwards. Nostr relays are not "authorities." Nostr also does direct known-key fetching via NIP-65, the same property you're crediting PKARR with. anyone can host a relay and it's trivial to run. Many of us do it already. Relays are an authority insofar as the operator decides which posts to censor. PKARR doesn't only facilitate fetch; it allows for both active and passive redundancy in resource location; including other Ed25519 non-IP endpoints (reticulum, meshtastic, meshcore etc.) >> Synonym Nexus looks a lot more like an authority than thousands of independent relays do Game theory doesn't support dominating authorities in a true mesh. Thousands of independent nostr relays is a pipe dream. >> Especially when the software is set to phone home to it by default and requires changing an opaque config file. I've yet to see a UI that allows for confirming this is easily changeable. Sure; The current public beta is definitely centralised. I am judging Pubky by the architecture, not by an early release. >> May need proof of life to end my suspicion of you being a bot. Sent a DM