What if this special relay is run locally by the user? Or what if the relay is actually a client itself? Would that change the outbox model?
Why would a client need to support two models? At least Jumble doesn’t need to make any changes. If such a special relay emerges, the user simply needs to bookmark the relay and browse it. They can still click on the following feed and connect to dozens or even hundreds of relays as before.
I see what you mean. Yes, one of the advantages of the Jumble model is that it allows for that kind of customization, and if it's clear to the user that they're browsing a relay and not the abstract concept of their following feed then I see it as pretty much ok.
I was thinking that you wanted to get rid of the following feed and proposing that Nostr clients switched entirely to this other model (rather than just adding a feature for browsing relays).
This is just a solution specifically for users who follow too many people.
That's fine, specifically because no one really follows more than 400 people. When they have more than that it's because they're interested in some "trends" more than the actual specific people, so relay feeds with whatever algorithms would be a much better choice.
Eventually users will have to learn too, they can't just expect things to work the best way for them without no work (and it can't be argued that such approach works on centralized platforms, it doesn't).
(Still, I think normal outbox will work fine with any number of users as long as you have a local database that is proportionally big and a syncing process that is slow and patient.)
Will we have a Fiatjaf Jumble fork with local database?
It looks like fevela already has that.
Yeah, I agree. Even if a client fully fetches and displays notes from nearly a thousand people, I don’t think anyone can realistically read all of that. Once the number of followings passes a certain point, "following" kind of loses its meaning.
(And since most people don’t stay on a page for very long, I’m not sure a slow, patient syncing process would really work in practice either.)
I just wish it were simpler to create thematic relays; that would bring people together based on their areas of interest.
