Yeah, no doubt the relays and protocols are way, way, way better than ActivityPub. The UIs are kind of trash, but they'll catch up soon enough. The community will follow.
The problem I see is that Nostr doesn't really seem to foster actual communities. I think there should be a way to specify a "primary relay" and have that be shown on all messages so people can form tribes, even if they're still spamming posts to every relay they can find.
I wonder if groups are possible on nostr. Or just use hashtags lol…
Or relays or chat rooms
This is why I want to be able to switch relay groups, or have a separate tab for a separate set of relays. One set for the general retarded public, another set for people who aren't retarded.
I guess you could have topic oriented relays right? Like you could have a cooking relay or a news relay, I guess? But then someone has to actively janny.
You can’t janny yet but this uses little resources so you can do separate relays on same machine
Are you sure? That seems dangerous from a liability perspective.
There is literally no docs and the fact that spammers ruined a few popular relays tells me that there is no janny. Features
This looks like the best guide to setting up a relay to start with
https://github.com/BlockChainCaffe/Nostr-Relay-Setup-Guide
But there's not really any mention of configuration or black/whitelisting. Maybe it's in the code, but it's written in tranny Rust and likely way overcomplicated, so I don't really care to delve into it. Maybe there's a Go relay with similar capabilities.
If you want a community, you'd have to whitelist public keys on a given relay. For it to be usable, you'd need an interface that only shows posts from that given relay or set of relays that you like (kind of like home timeline on fedi).
Snort.social lets you browse the timelines of individual relays. A lot of clients have helpful features like this, they’re just scattered over several different projects. We need a flagship client.
