How to use relays would be self-evident if relays had types and those types were expressed programmatically.
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If you can you come up with a taxonomy for all the relays in https://relays.land/ I'll be convinced.
nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9u2mk7fe did a pretty good job with this in the nostra protocol/nips repo; I believe it was an issue not a PR.
I don't think that classification would solve this problem (nor it was its goal). If I remember it correctly it doesn't work for any of my examples.
No, it doesn't directly resolve it, but it is the right approach. All your examples are still technically relays, the issue is you have no way to clasify or express them. Adding an arbitrary number (2-3) of new terms and eliminating usage of the term "relay" might address the stated issue, but creates new ones. What are those 2-3 terms? How are they defined? What percentage of alignment does a *relay* need to be a _____. What if there is a relay that us a combination of all 2-3 types in some way in the future?
wss://relay.damus.io/ is a star.
wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com is a planet.
wss://topic.relays.land/whales is an comet.
wss://lang.relays.land/es is a meteor.
wss://nostr.wine is a starplanet.
wss://bucket.coracle.social is an asteroid.
wss://impromptu.relays.land is a comet.
wss://lockbox.relays.land is a small starcomet.
And wss://purplepag.es is a blackhole?
wss://jellyfish.land is a whole galaxy 🪼❤️
Our proxy will be a kind of wormhole 🫨
Are we urbit now?
Does Urbit have a monopoly on names of space bodies? In that case can you please come up with another analogy please?
T shirt sizes
Sandwiches
Boats
Lots to work with here: Beam, Draft, Draft, LOA, LWL, Displacement Params, Hull Type/Shape. And the result will be everyone nostr understands boats and can have a boating accident.
Finally always wanted to try that out /s
Lol @ asteroid btw
My kneejerk reaction is "this is stupid" because someone else tried using the planet/galaxy analogy with a different social platform. Also, its not self explanatory, but with an explanation the idea might work
wss://relay.internationalrigh-wing.org