Nostur has awesome control for relays (select which ones to read from, post to, and search on). But I’m realizing that I have literally no information as to which relays are better than others. I want to reduce the amount of relays but how? I don’t personally know anyone running any of these. It’s like choosing Home Depot or Lowe’s. Literally the same, makes no difference.

There should not be a hard supply cap to begin with. That is an insane monetary system that has never existed in history ever, so that’s on you for pitching it. Saylor would be God Emperor of planet earth under such a system. View quoted note →

For anyone wondering, I am trying to make my own nostr client based on this idea of nostr relays being “places”. The experience is like Lego Island, essentially. You start out in one default “place” and in order to learn about new places you have to meet a local that tells you about them. Searching for things and posting is highly intentional. You’re specifically marking down where you are going to search / post to. If you get invited to someone’s home (maybe the personal relay server they always post to), you’re getting let in on something special. If you stalk someone and act creepy, you might get bounced from a place. So many analogies that just work. View quoted note →

Hey @Alex Gleason are you still running that service where you spin up relays for communities?

Question: If nothing is curated, how do we find things? Answer: Nostr relays that function like magazines. Each of your contributors gets whitelisted to post on the relay. They are contracted to post X times per week. Readers just read from the relay. Nostr clients need to support this UX. @hodlbod @rabble

Tadaima.

If nothing is curated, how do we find things?

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It’s so Machiavellian to convince the ignorant masses to spend their Bitcoin. I respect it. View quoted note →

The decimal is fake. Just remove the decimal. View quoted note →

Relays should be the primary entity in Nostr UX. Trying to make it all oriented around users / people is a hack workaround.

Honestly, there should be no “following” and “followers” list that is attached to public user profiles. NIP-2 (follow list) should be private to the user. NIP-65 (advertise relays where the user generally writes to and relays where the user generally reads mentions) should replace it as the “public” info on someone’s profile.

Please just call it payouts or something. This shit is worse than Urbit naming View quoted note →

All the fediverse had to do was allow accounts to be separate from servers. That’s literally all they had to do.

Would be nice if there was a way to quickly and easily tell which relays are which… Telephone pole = ephemeral, chaotic, maybe proof of work to post?, low trust Shopfront Window = pay per post or ad-supported, agreed upon lifespan, semi-trusted Church / University bulletin board = whitelist membership based, high trust View quoted note →

It should be much, much harder to post to relays. Increase the barrier to entry. Show the relay proudly in the apps.