Co-locating a community on one relay is also the simplest way to curate community-related events. The community has a clubhouse, and the clubhouse has a library, a room to chat, a game-room, a calendar, etc.

The community can manually curate by labeling, querying, and colocating.

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If you start from the domain and drive from there, you have to identify the domain a community encompasses.

A clubhouse. That's the domain. It's a place where the community members congregate.

I think we've naturally done that on SimpleX, Beave. Calling our various groups TheForest and TheLibrary.

They are virtual places, not mere messaging channels. And we are hosts of those places.

Thinking of the community as a group that controls or curates a varied set of events comes from nostr:npub149p5act9a5qm9p47elp8w8h3wpwn2d7s2xecw2ygnrxqp4wgsklq9g722q That bit of brilliance wasn't from me.

But I think the current encryption-focus, rather than location-focus, makes this concept unnecessarily complex and prone to error and leaks. I would like stop and weigh the pros and cons of each focus, as this is a subject near and dear to my heart.

Same conversation I want to have.

To the naive Niel in me, it just sounds silly to put all that effort and complexity into building the most badass secure vault, because you per se want to put it in the middle of Times Square.

Same, bro.