Interesting argument by @gord that Nostr represents an unrecognized third type of distributed architecture after federated and p2p (which he suggests don’t quite work due to rise of oligarchic or supermodel end-games) — a relay architecture.

Curious what people think of this typology in general. 2 or 3 seems like a weird number for a typology. If it’s not 2, 200 seems more likely than 3

Periodic table of distributed systems topologies?

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Interesting argument by @gord that Nostr represents an unrecognized third type of distributed architecture after federated and p2p (which he suggests don’t quite work due to rise of oligarchic or supermodel end-games) — a relay architecture.

Curious what people think of this typology in general. 2 or 3 seems like a weird number for a typology. If it’s not 2, 200 seems more likely than 3

Periodic table of distributed systems topologies? https://open.substack.com/pub/subconscious/p/natures-many-attempts-to-evolve-a

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I believe Secure Scuttlebutt did a similar thing with "pubs" distributing that content. I think BlueSky is also planning this kind of architecture.