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I am sorry to see so many relays now require AUTH for reading. I don't AUTH to read. I want to read anonymously, just like I can read RSS or websites anonymously. Why require AUTH for reading (other than for DMs)?

NOTE: I totally understand requiring AUTH for writing. And if I reply to somebody and their inbox wants me to AUTH to send that reply, I get it. That is a good policy to prevent reply spam.

It feels to me that nostr is splitting, and a bunch of relays that have taken this AUTH-to-read policy are now unavailable.

Silberengel 1y ago

I think it's fine, to have relays with different levels of access.

Maybe we are writing things that we don't want everyone to read, or storing things like drafts or events addressed to a particular community. Or maybe we don't want to open ourselves up to constant ridicule and threats, or just want to talk amongst ourselves. Or we want to have more control over the ability to edit or replace events.

AUTH on reading doesn't stop information from spreading (there is no technology that does this), but it slows it down, considerably. Feels more like writing on Telegram.

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Silberengel 1y ago

That said, I tend to cross-publish most events to public relays. If I want a wider audience to read something, I put it in a place where they can read it and respond.

nostr:npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h is working on a way for us to be able to write everything to theforest and then categorize it public/private by kind or tag or whatnot, to determine if it will be auto-broadcasted to "public" relays.