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fiatjaf _@fiatjaf.com 3 months ago
wss://relay.damus.io/ is a star. wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com is a planet. wss://topic.relays.land/whales is an comet. wss://lang.relays.land/es is a meteor. wss://nostr.wine is a starplanet. wss://bucket.coracle.social is an asteroid. wss://impromptu.relays.land is a comet. wss://lockbox.relays.land is a small starcomet.
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Dawn dawn@spatia-arcana.com 3 months ago
That would be an astroid belt... a personal, private relay would be a black hole. 😂 The application of cosmological terminology could actually lend a lot of nuance to explaining function... and it fits very well with people's tendency to call Nostr "the Nostrverse".
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Brunswick Brunswick@stacker.news 3 months ago
My kneejerk reaction is "this is stupid" because someone else tried using the planet/galaxy analogy with a different social platform. Also, its not self explanatory, but with an explanation the idea might work
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npub19w6s...syzj 3 months ago
I think of relays like ship nomenclature in the Culture books. Some are "General Systems Vehicles", some are "Rapid Offensive Units", some are ghost ships etc.
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wss://relay.damus.io/ is a star. wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com is a planet. wss://topic.relays.land/whales is an comet. wss://lang.relays.land/es is a meteor. wss://nostr.wine is a starplanet. wss://bucket.coracle.social is an asteroid. wss://impromptu.relays.land is a comet. wss://lockbox.relays.land is a small starcomet.
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