Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

Hmm. I always thought the basic idea of Nostr is that events are not tied to domain names or URLs or anything of the sort. Off the top of my head, I see 3 issues with this special-relay approach: 1. It diminishes censorship resistance 2. Seeing publications tagged (and linked) in articles before having subscribed to a special relay is good for discovery. I would definitely want people to be able to subscribe to all my articles by just subscribing to the pubkey itself. 3. It adds a burden on publishers to run special infrastructure

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fiatjaf _@fiatjaf.com 1 year ago

Well, what is a publication anyway if not centered around a brand and a special infrastructure? And censorship concerns are diminished in this case as you're already running your own server -- moreover a publication already "censors" by its own nature, since it doesn't accept articles from anyone. The special relay approach doesn't prevent anyone from linking, tagging or replying to the publications themselves from other relays, that's the beauty of Nostr indeed and it wouldn't be lost.

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fiatjaf _@fiatjaf.com 1 year ago

What does it mean to "just subscribe to a pubkey" anyway? It means connecting to the relay or set of relays that pubkey has chosen and downloading events from there. In this case subscribing to a custom relay is different, but not completely different, in practice -- but I grant you we have no way to do this seamlessly currently in any client -- except perhaps Nostur.

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