maybe you know your community more then me but I joined simply because it was cheap and it can store my notes as a backup. I'm not sure who the other users on your relay are. I never go on your relay website.

I checked it I don't understand what the topic is. I used chatgpt and it said it's original gangster California. I'm not sure what that means.

I remember reading last year that people were setting up relays and even naming them in the same way as forums and we're hoping to get users to join their relays depending on the relay'a topic. Kinda like mastodon too where the insurances have a specific topic.

That's not the direction nostr will go. The direction nostr will go is exactly like Ditto pub software and amethyst. This means people will go on a website login with their npub and view their following feeds, or use a client like amethyst and view their feed.

Very few people will want to go on a website called nostr cats and view only profiles related to cats. A community of cats. That's almost like mastodon. Then they admin will be able to ban you and it's centralized.

Amethyst does have communities. There is a tab for it. That works much better. The ditto pub software needs to add those communities to it as well.

I believe the direction nostr is going is to give the user the most power, while limiting power to administrators to have communities on their websites.

Relays will be useful but simply to store the notes synced across all relays. In fact the newest amethyst puts less emphasis on adding removing relays.