how does this interact with what you're saying?
vinney...axkl's avatar vinney...axkl
i've been on team "client connects to one personal relay that then does all the other work" for a while. i come from a background of building personal servers, so i have a bias here. i've experieneced first hand the power of having an extremely powerful and massively responsible single personal server + an infinite number of super light edge clients that offload all the work and trust to that server. when it is fully yours, you can trust it entirely. this really changes everything - including the worries about nsec safety. bonus point: your server can even serve your edge device all the client code it needs. future bonus point that will sound insane to most people but it is in development: your personal server is a single "logical device" that is actually spread across many physical devices, including your phone, the cloud, your home. an omni-present, device-agnostic, cryptographically-identified virtual machine.
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I mean basically this yeah except that only us bigtime nerds are going to do that, so I understand why clients want to give the power to users directly so they don't need to run their own mothership at home, but I at least want a "You may see less things if you don't use a aggregation relay but it's more private" button. The issue is have is that web clients do things on demand. Servers and hosters can easily know when im scrolling and on what client. Hell i host my pfp and @GitCitadel nip05 and I can know when some people are online and which one of us is more active or trending just by watching server logs in stream. And I don't want to hear the catastrophisation argument from anyone: "nostr isn't meant to be private" or, "Relays can already see that". No they can't see when Im on the pot scrolling, or in bed if that's all coming from my own relay, that just stores event's for me to load. Just give me the option. Obv that's not the case, so I made that note to share how i've disabled outbox forcibly with uBlock.