Comment by iamnothere

Thanks, not sure who would have flagged your comment but I vouched it. Redundancy in download traffic makes sense, although NIP 77 should help with this: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/77.md

I think I see Nostr as having some of the best points of both decentralization and your “small community” concept. As a user I can be as decentralized as I want to be (or totally centralized!) by publishing to as few or as many relays as I want. I can also hoard my events and republish if relays go offline. And followers can find my content through multiple channels: I don’t necessarily know or care what relay they use.

I don’t necessarily think that the small community approach is bad for everyone. Some people may even prefer the ephemerality of it. I just get tired of building on sand.