<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>gugabfigueiredo wrote</title><author_name>gugabfigueiredo (npub1up…2sfek)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.now/npub1uplxcy63up7gx7cladkrvfqh834n7ylyp46l3e8t660l7peec8rsd2sfek</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.now</provider_url><html>are economic incentives the only ones we care about?&#xA;&#xA;I kind of like the idea of conceptually distinguishing between clients and relays. &#xA;&#xA;a client is an application that connects to relays to pull/push notes &#xA;a relay is a server that accepts connections and processes notes in the specified schema&#xA;&#xA;those are abstract concepts. if an application implements both interfaces it&#39;s capable of P2P.&#xA;&#xA;if you want to own your data, you need ro run a relay. isn&#39;t that where the incentives lie? the economic incentives are created by people who don&#39;t want to run their own relays.&#xA;&#xA;I think the question then is: can only P2P exist? is there no room for something in between centralized platforms and P2P only?</html></oembed>