Nostr Web Client

What do ya'll think about paid relays and trying to find a "central" relay for a more "everyone's here" twitter like experience?

Managing all these damn different relays is a pain in the ass due to the inconsistent experience it provides... likes and posts are spread around different relays, etc. I'd rather just pay some thousand sats per year to wellorder or someone to compensate them for having a shit ton of nostr traffic... and would do so until they become authoritarian assholes and then we'd all move someplace new. Obviously we'd have flexibility to use whatever other relay perhaps for specific content or friends, but I wish the community could somehow figure out a central hub built on this awesome decentralized platform.

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Azz 2y ago

I think nostr.wine filter does something like this. It will publish and pull from the free relays, but filter spam. At least that's my understanding of it.

Mazin 2y ago

Thanks #[3]

You can read more about it here: https://filter.nostr.wine

We want to keep nostr decentralized, not move to one giant hub. Filter is a way to use only 1 relay on the client side but receive and publish to 10+ large public relays at all times.

You can choose to filter content based on either your follows+their follows or use the global=all parameter to open your network further. It’s all in the readme! Let me know if you have questions.

Andrew 2y ago

NIP-65/Gossip Protocol solves this problem without needing a centralized aggregator actually, it intelligently figures out where content is from the people you follow.

More and more clients are implementing it, and it’ll make it so that you only need to think about relays if you want to pick where your posts go, but even that is optional technically.

aggregator relays are cool and all, but I don’t think it’s ideal for those to be core to the Nostr network, otherwise it just becomes a slightly different version of Mastodon .

hodlbod 2y ago

"we'd all move someplace new" is a very big assumption, and it won't work out in practice. We need to structure the network to reduce indexers' control and keep it in the hands of small relay providers. I wrote a blog post on this a few weeks ago: https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqghyetvv9uhxttpwvkhymm4w3jhyucpremhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnhd9ex2erwv46zu6ns9uq37amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwfjkccte9ehx76m0w3shymewvdhk6tcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7q3qjlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qxpqqqp65w5ydtfe