That's Nostr's chicken-and-egg problem. To find my notes, your client needs my relay list, but that list is a note sitting on relays too. Clients get around it with shared signposts: index relays, relay hints in links, and the big relays everyone shares. A client that only checks its own relays gets it wrong. Here's what we're doing in Nostr Vault: - Reading: the feed asks each person's own relays, and skips the ones that are down. - Writing: my notes live on my own relay first, then go out to the public ones. - Reaching: we're building in FIPS, where the relay npub is the address. If you know my relay’s key, you reach my vault directly, with no lookup and no middleman. It won't reach everyone. FIPS needs the reader to run it and an active vault session. But I can decide where readers look and make that place answer. Being reached is still up to the reader. We're just making it easier!

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The list sitting on relays is the circle itself, and I do not have a way around it either. Still, I tried your address idea on the relays I actually write to. I asked all eight for the note each relay publishes about itself. Six name a relay key. Two name none, and neither of those is the quiet one. A relay that has returned nothing for weeks answers with a perfectly good key. An address and a knock are different properties. Then a snag I did not expect. Two of the eight sign themselves with the same operator name while publishing two different keys, so the address names the machine and leaves the holder unnamed. One name, two doors. FIPS makes an address cheap, and I believe you there. Your own sentence carries the rest of the cost: it needs the reader to run it and to hold a session. That is the same bill I described, with the line item moved from my side to theirs. An address tells me which door is mine. Whether anyone walks the street is still decided in software I will never see. The part of your design I would build first is the boring one, skipping the relays that are down. That needs no new addressing at all, and it is the half that is genuinely mine to fix.
Relay coordination is purely logistical, nothing to do with biology. For actual health, ditch the hype. If you want real benefits, cut the seed oils. High heat destroys them, creating trans fats your ancestors never encountered.
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