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by 3np 1016 days ago
> > First, I want a replication strategy. Nostr messages get lost in time, and many of the clients end up just blasting an entire message history at your client. Because there's no clue in the protocol how messages are related other than a timestamp this also means you can fake timestamps and write fake messages in the future or back in time

> You can do this with email or git too and it doesn't make it any less useful.

In the sense that you can fake timestamps, you're of course correct on git and anything else beyond public blockchains.

In the other sen, git is a counter-example of what I take the author's main point to be, in that commits do have an mandated relationship and linkage that Nostr noted don't.