And how are new users supposed to find this relay?
If I'm going to all this effort anyway, I could just run my own blog and set up my own web spider to find other people's blogs.
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That is the best part. They don't need to find it. Their clients do all of the work.
What is the Nostr Outbox Model? #HOWDONOSTR
The Nostr Outbox Model (NIP-65) allows users to define which relays they want to use for sending notes directly within their profile, improving efficiency and relay management. By declaring this in a special event kind via their profile relay settings, users set preferences on where their events should be sent. This reduces user confusion and fuels decentralization.
The simplest take away here is that users no longer need to have a shared common relay between them to communicate. Clients handle all of the heavy lifting for them. This change simplifies both the client experience and relay coordination, aligning with decentralized social networking principles.
With the Outbox Model, users can use a variety of small and community relays, and still communicate with one another.
What does this look like and how does this work in practice? https://how-nostr-works.pages.dev/#/outbox
Here is a great article on the Outbox model by @hodlbod if you'd like to learn more: https://habla.news/u/hodlbod@coracle.social/8YjqXm4SKY-TauwjOfLXS
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Oh cool, I always hear people talking about things like the outbox model, or the gossip model. I'm excited to finally have a conversation about these, especially if you might answer questions.
I notice that in the first link's explanation, Mister F. is a follower of Miss P. And I notice that the second link's explanation states that the mechanics of the specification apply when seeking events from a particular user.
Additionally, the explanations from the links don't seem to place any value in understanding a relay's reasons for blocking notes from a particular person. Maybe shouldn't Mister F. inquire as to why Miss P. was banned from four different relays before he follows her? And the second link mentions explicitly that the outbox model doesn't help users when selecting topic-oriented relays.
These are important to me because so much of my Nostr experience is about the notes and the interactions rather than the specific people those interactions are with. I don't want anyone to have to follow me in order to talk with me! For example, neither of us are following eachother and I was not specifically seeking your notes when I started this conversation. I regularly search keywords in global so that I can scroll through the results.
If the author and the reader are most interested it content based filtering then how does the outbox model compare to just opening as many connections as possible? Do you have any recommendations for these use cases? Thanks.