Nostr Web Client

For someone coming to nostr in say a year, is the “entirety” of the network knowable?

Can someone just head to nostr.watch, for example, and just loop through every public/paid relay and ask for every single event? I would think the relays would close the connection before serving all that data right?

Duncan Cary Palmer 2y ago

Wish I knew...🤔

Seems to me that unless someone pays the costs, relay operators have little motivation to archive data.

ATM, I'm viewing nostr as "current events" more than "permanent archive."😮

Perhaps certain relays could offer archival permanence for a few when requests for older/unpopular data come in? Think archive.org type access?😁

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monk_cactus 2y ago

yes, good point, it’s unlikely most of these relays will have archived data anyway.

But this makes me think we will have a nostr “google” emerge that has events well indexed and will allow you to explore not just tweet like notes, but also blog posts, join markets etc. And probably bump things based on ad spots.

A lot of people think of nostr as twitter, but it’s really more like the web. From a social media perspective, reddit might actually be a better client model. Relatively isolated communities that cluster around certain relays