I think the solution is to ship with out any relays… rss readers and browsers don’t ship with feeds or a bunch of tabs opened. If they do it’s to content the developer does control.
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Maybe... I would hate for users to have a horrible experience though because they didn't have a list of default relays. I like #[3]'s suggestion about moving categories and/or changing the description a bit of Damus to treat it like a browser of the Nostr protocol.
I totally agree with you, we must look for the simplest solution that interferes as little as possible with the Damus code, both now and in the future.
I never had a horrible experience with an rss reader… and when I do it’s because they curating content (relays) on my behalf and shoving it in my face. I always change the default home page of a browser. As is it would be a bad experience with it just saying “nothing to show here” a well written explanation of how nostr works, that this isn’t the damus network, would help even with out any changes, including during the approval process.
RSS feeds are nearly 25 years old and everyone has heard of them. Nostr is a protocol that's roughly 2 years old. I don't think they're the same for the average user on the street.
most people have no clue what an rss reader is… they use services like flipboard and blindly accept the recommended sources. neither have these same people used a twitter client (none of which auto-populate with global feeds). People gotta loosely wrap their minds around how nostr works or if and when a clients get shut down at a later date for any reason these people will just go listen to joe rogan on Spotify and continue to refer to it as a podcast.
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