Nostr Web Client

I think you are overlooking the gossip model, where people can self-host small personal relays on a tiny VPS or a raspberry pi in their closet, and all these people can follow each other and nobody needs to moderate content (but they do need to filter incoming spam, just like with email). Relays don't need to be costly services. Certainly people who aren't comfortable hosting their own relay will sign up for a service, and such services can monetize, just as email providers do today. Client development costs are limited over time; we have quite functional clients already.

HoloKat 2y ago

That cannot scale.

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

The only aspect of it that doesn't scale well is if you want to follow 5000 people from your phone and need to connect to nearly 5000 relays. But that situation can be supported if a personal relay did the aggregation for your client. Bittorrent clients can regularly handle 10000 connections at a time. And even if that were a problem, round robin scanning could be used instead of holding the connections open.

It scales.

We don't have what we need yet, though. We need a personal relay with the right ruleset (two attempts have been made at this, but neither quite got there) and the ability to operate it as a headless client (eventually).