Jens Finkhäuser on Nostr: ... we're connecting people. That's what we're addressing, but it's also who (much ...

... we're connecting people. That's what we're addressing, but it's also who (much of) the messages we're sending are consumed by.

On that layer of abstraction, instances are routers. Instances do form a mesh, more or less, so in a sense the fedi topology is very comparable to it's packet switching underlay, where instances are akin to edge routers that connect users in a star pattern to the mesh of the core fediverse.

Except.