True. But emphasis on the *plural* of local relays. I used to think one db could master it all. But no, we will need multiple local relays if nostr is to win.

Yeah, I just scan for a predefined ports and pull in any that are in a kind 10432. I had to build that because I test local relays and write installers, and I need lots of ports. Also wanted to solve for someone running GRW on a server, with different local relays for different customers. Might end up with 10 instances of the same local relay, after all.

That is the biggest Nostr innovation, IMO. It's the DeepSeek of communication protocols. Distilled the communication interface down so small and lightweight, but you can put a massive, smart server or a whole cloud server landscape behind that, or run something like Citrine. And it all just works.

Can use the 10432 to map a local relay to one or remote relays, and create a secure data tunnel.

MASSIVE INTEROP! That's the best promise (sometimes fulfilled) of nostr.

Like OneDrive<>Sharepoint, but more intuitive and finely-grained, and Microsoft doesn't read your stuff. I was a Office365 admin, when I started using Nostr, and I absolutely hated it. I figured out how Nostr worked and was immediately like

@Vitor Pamplona @liminal 🦠 @ChipTuner I was thinking this for something like MedSchlr or our gitcitadel enterprise relay. Otherwise you might accidentally transfer stuff from a protected AUTH relay to other relays, over a local sync. Have to explicitly set them up as local/remote mirrors. And that would help daily-driver clients to manage your connections to those relays, as the map is stored in an event that you can keep on something like wss://profiles.nostr1.com or wss://purplepag.es. A community admin could provide a default 10432 template, that users integrate during the onboarding wizard.

Yup. The more I am building, the more that nostr and mints are disappearing into the background. I take my inspiration from Signal and text messaging where most people don’t realize that there is a server in the background. We can do the same with relays. My #nostr #safebox server can be spun up with zero configuration, save for generating a nsec for the server. It’s exciting to see what is simple and possible.