do you believe relays should have any primary organizing principles?
e.g., topics, geography/location, etc?
Discussion
With nostr:npub16fcy8ynknssdv7s487nh4p2h4vr3aun64lpfea45d7h4sts9jheqevshgh we focus on high availability by having the geographic relays transparent to users. All notes are streamed (synced) across all relays we run. But Brazilian users, for example would all connect and benefit from a short number of hops to their geo relay.
I do think in the future there may be special interest relays. Or ones with select users with write access but these should still stream to other "Tier 1" relays. Big relay operators need to commit to streaming between themselves or will end up with centralized silos.
Oh, thanks for sharing. I just discovered that they follow me, so I have write permission. I added the relay now. It looks promising, especially because they have relays in two of the countries where I spend most of my time 🤙
Yes. Not necessarily all relays, but that kind of content segregation could be a big Nostr feature.
100% agreed
the lack of experimentation on this is very strange, and I think it's because clients make it too hard to navigate across relay sets
How is this supposed to compose? Paste a hashtag on-top of every note made to the relay? Currently you would have to sort notes based on their relay, which is a bad idea.
I was thinking about this the other day, instead of a moderation policy, relays could have a default topic that notes are required to adhere to. Maybe added to something like NIP-11?
More like all the people from a particular community write to one or two relays plus randomly to some public ones. If you want the best content for a particular community you’ll subscribe to one of the ones that’s favored by that community. If you want to be seen and heard in that community you’ll pay for those relays.
Ah right, sure. Relays hold the power, might as well structure the community that way as well. Still, I don't think public relays are a dead-end, they just need better organization.
Public relays are important. They’re how you talk to random people outside your community. But they’re likely to purge your posts after a while. Community relays are home base.
The UI would have to be discovered. Probably use different screens for each relay or relay group.