Nostr Web Client

People who do not support, do not care about or never heard about the "gossip model" -- which is basically the idea that clients should (mostly) automatically find people in wherever relays they are and fetch their notes from these relays -- here is a question for you:

What would happen if everybody is following Alex Jones on the 10 biggest relays, but they all collude to ban Alex Jones? Then Alex Jones starts publishing on a relatively tiny relay hosted in Colombiat. How can Nostr fulfill its censorship-resistant promises in this situation? Would all of his millions of Nostr followers have to manually open their settings and add his new relay address?

nen 2y ago

yes and no?

the way you mention is very convenient however i still believe it’s people’s business to choose relays they want to listen to. especially when there will be many more relays with their own terms of service, maybe some even be theme-related, and so on.

can’t say for others, but for me it would be great if after opening account of a user, client could notify me “hey, can’t get his new posts, check out relays he’s writing to” – that’s exactly what’s happening then you’re following some independent journalist, right?

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royaoid 2y ago

the problem is finding a relay a user is on, a dht solves this

Nostrbi 2y ago

dht is very slowly. bitcoin is the example, and that's the reason why we need lightning network, by the way, I like that I can control to remove or add some relay.

royaoid 2y ago

if we keep the dht simple npub, 1 relay, signature, and maybe we can remove the sig

Sirius 2y ago

Yes, and the "relay" could even be your p2p client. And if your relay is not reachable, you can always ask your events from people who follow you.

Sirius 2y ago

P2P could work without DHT as well if clients publish their IP on nostr