Private groups, yes, but I can't get them to move on there. They all want something like Slack.
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I think a single relay explorer with a designated # could work for what your trying to accomplish
Probably, but # get spammy fast.
It would help, if it had a new note editor that automatically added #dev hashtag and something like Oddbeans that just showed #dev notes, that's true. That would probably be the simplest.
nostrudel has hashtag feeds, i just discovered
Really? Where?
just click search and type a hashtag, et voila https://nostrudel.ninja/#/t/devstr
You can use the # in conjunction with a whitelist of npubs, or make it a paid relay to join. That means a # alone won’t write to the relay
Oh, that's a nice combination. I might do that. 🤔
I could add some dev keywords and just blacklist people who abuse the privilege.
Dev devstr Nostr meshtastic those are the main ones, right?
It works really great, we’ve been using it in our moonboi relay and it even works with major clients like Damus by using the global feed and selecting only the select relay as its source.
By having a whitelist of npubs combined with a mandatory # (in moonboi we use #🌝 but it can be changed and updated at will) it means that we can filter out all the noise the whitelist(paid members) of npubs post and only see the ones they #🌝
In your example, you could make it like (white listed npub) AND (#dev or #devstr or #nostr or #meshtastic)
Topical relays with relay explorers or apps with Damus global feed like abilities to turn on and off particular relay feeds is a great way to “filter” nostr, but would require a lot of relay connections which seems to harm clients