Nostr would be much stronger with a feature that lets me encrypt notes so only trusted people can decrypt them, with those notes appearing naturally in the feed of approved mutual followers.
That feels like the missing piece.
I do not want to post photos of my kids or share my location publicly, but I also do not want to manage a dozen group chats just to share them with friends and family.
And I don't want minor personal updates, like what I am doing for dinner, to become another interruption in a group chat people have to read through to follow the actual conversation. In a feed, people can look if they want to, and ignore it if they do not.
That would make Nostr feel complete.
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I understand your UX requirements, but when I say a group chat I am talking about the actual access control burden where everyone needs to share secrets with everyone which is usually the reason Signal groups can't be large, I used that to make it clear how small Nostr is.
But once you have the access control figured, you can figure out the UX so it is not a linear feed and that you can post in separate channels. In fact that is how stuff like Discord or similar workspaces work. There is also threads, or topics or channels or whatever. Filtering and organisation is the easy part. The hard part is scale and for privacy of course access control.
I’d imagine you can use private relays for that…
Yeah, but that doesn't scale well because everyone needs to run a private relay. And security is weak because if the note is shared it's not encrypted. Not many clients let you post to a specific relays only easily.
