Here are some unfiltered thoughts about how #communities online and offline could use #nostr.

I love how Nostr has given us a viable, decentralised alternative to social media.

At a conceptual level Nostr is superior to Mastodon’s use of ActivityPub. But I think Mastodon does communities better.

Federated servers are a good way of signposting the intent of a community. People can join a server about something that interests them. On the flip side of this it is hard to move servers and you can’t join multiple servers.

Nostr doesn’t have this issue as multiple relays can be joined. BUT it is almost like a homogenous blob. The only way to filter your feed (that I know of) is through hashtags. Even then it’s difficult to establish a “community” that can focus on a specific topic as anyone can use the hashtag (s**tcoin bots for example).

Without understanding all the fundamentals of how relays and clients work I pose this question.

Could “special” relays be created that focus on specific types of content? They are write protected through some community website that users sign up to. But at the same time can broadcast and be read by other clients/relays to retain the advantage of decentralising notes?

Interested to hear from those who have worked on Nostr and ideas that people have

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