What topical relays are there running now? I know this is an idea that’s been floating around for a while. But has anybody setup and run a topical relay? Any ones running which I could look at to see how it’s working?
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the only client that lets me specify a relay is nos social. would be interesting to see an implementation that instead of directly choosing a relay from my main list, it presents it as post as “topic” and thats a relay isn’t held in metadata, or at least not the main list, so I don’t submit notes that are off topic when I use any other client that doesn’t allow per post granularity.
Amethyst now has the option for you to select which relays you want to post to as well. i'm not sure if it's used very extensively and but the option exists.
I think for topic relays to gain traction the clients need to do more hand holding, and not pulling from main relay list, so the relay op requires a bit less moderation of irrelevancy, for it to work and be worth it to set up a topic specific relay. Would be nice to see a relay implementation that would let me set up multiple topics using the same resource.
I think I understand the concept of filtering a feed to read based on relay, but what about writing?
For this to be useful wouldn’t it require clients to support the ability to choose which relay you’re publishing to when you write a note? Otherwise aren’t topical relays going to be full of notes unrelated to the topic?
Some apps, line mine nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch do support choosing which relays to publish to.
I think we could have relays that only host a part of a users posts, say those in a community / group / connected to a list / or with hashtags.
Also we’re building a viewer which shows who’s using and what content is on a relay. Hence I wanted to see what topical relays / content focused ones exist to test it out.
Yes, for now you have to use keywords.. eg. You could tell everyone the keywords and hashtags that get collected.. and then in addition you can further curate off topic spam.. relay.tools does this.
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By topical you mean specific to a community/content type?
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Thanks for sharing, yes it seems like the content is very focused on the relay topic, very helpful.
That said, this doesn’t seem very Christlike to me…
Did you post that to see what would happen? Lol.
It'll get deleted by a mod.
It seems like a post which should be moded… I wasn’t trying to troll you. Apologies. Most of the content I see seems like it’s fine and perfectly in line with christian values. And I’m looking at it through our new relay viewer, so it doesn’t let you see full threads, user profiles, etc… definitely a work in progress.
I’m exicited about building tools for users and relay managers to handle reports and make community. I think there needs to be a diversity of community norms and spaces.
I've been working on similar in the posts view. Soon I should have buttons for mod actions eg. This page https://relay.tools/posts lots to do but it's getting there. Ya if your client can send mod events the relays will respond.
The timing on that post.. very sad. Yeah modding is a hard job, this relay runs mostly off keywords to try to gather relevant posts. I'm not a mod on here I just provide relay services.
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