wont it be difficult to be subscribed to enough relays to know all the conversations
nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 I’m trying to understand the whole nostr protocol in depth (reading all the NIPs and reading the code for common open source clients and relays)
One thing I’m wondering is, at some point in the adoption curve of Nostr wont it be difficult to be subscribed to enough relays to know all the conversations that may mention you?
Especially if paid relays become the default (which makes sense), wont we have to subscribe to a large cross section to make sure we get alerted to all @ mentions?
PS if there are people to follow or podcasts / blogs that talk about Nostr at a technical level I’d love to do my own research, but I’m not sure where to go.
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This is an unnatural state of things, but all social media sites have trained us to believe that whatever they have for us is all that exists.
In real life we often have no idea if people are talking about us or not, unless someone explicitly tell us.
On Nostr, someone can explicitly tell us by learning what are the relays we normally listen to and publishing their mentions there (see NIP-65) -- but this is not the only approach to this.
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Global was always an illusion
Answered here, if you didn't get it: nostr:note1sjsk04zuppkunsmgvg2s9v6lea5v6z2hhcx6ma3juf29glz3uu5s2psejt
That’s a very good point.
I keep thinking of Nostr as one big social network. But it seems like it may end up functioning like many social networks that you can do some work to jump between if you want to be involved across many contexts.
Thanks for taking the time to answer. Are there any resources (people to follow, blogs to read and podcasts to listen to) that could help me avoid pestering people to learn more about Nostr?
(I’m through the NIPs and have been reading the code of a few projects)