I’m planning to set up a VPS running a relay-clone hybrid and I plan to pull the db into a graphDB with visual tools (probably Neo4J originally and maybe moving to Memgraph later if performance requires).

The plan is to publish a dynamic social graph of nostr on the web and if possible try and make it real time.

No other social media does this. LinkedInMaps existed for a while 10+ years ago, but nobody does this today (that I am aware of).

I’m planning to publish the map of relays at first (as slow/stable) and map of pubkeys later (starting with bif follows), then maybe in future can even represent some traffic graphically?

I think graphical discovery has never been fully explored, the technology probably was never there, but I can think of half a dozen ways to offer it.

Would anyone use it? I think the visual would be a mothlamp to tech journalists wanting to cover social media.

Example of LinkedIn Maps below for people younger than 40. 🥴