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It's not. Their own people say it over and over and everywhere that they cannot decentralize the "relay" because the entire architecture assumes a single source of truth for all the data, all they can do is hope people will migrate to an alternative server in case the canonical one becomes malicious. PDSes are useless and meaningless because no one talks to them except the "relay". They also cannot decentralize the identity system. Again, they say it themselves, and their plan is to give control over it to a more neutral party -- which you can say it's a good idea or not, but it's not decentralization.

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So, @fiatjaf, the founder of Nostr, now uses a client which randomly adds meaningless "e" tags of type "mention" when he replies to a thread, pointing to some previous item on the thread. The standard thing for a client to do when displaying such posts would be that of showing the referenced note as a quoted note. I don't think this is the intention. Why do client include tags that make no sense? See this posts for instance: View quoted note β†’ View quoted note β†’ View quoted note β†’
Architectures that assume a single source of truth eventually become centralized (despite claiming to be decentralized) and a single point of failure. That’s the reality. The alternate reality: There is no single source of truth. Just signed events from authorities (npubs) that you may or may not trust. There is no global store of signed events. Just signed events from relays you’ve connected to. Once you realize this, the desire to police others goes completely away.