What if everyone in the world ran their own private relay that only their friends were invited to? Does that even make sense?
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Isn't that like a private discord server. almost? nostrcord?
I’m just wondering how could you make a social network on nostr that is only your irl friends, like facebook
Isn't that possible with a private relay or a network of private relays that only read/write to each other? It's funny that you mention this because I was thinking nostrcord this morning while browsing my discord.
Yeah, and i would think of a “friend request” as the linking of two private relays
Nostr is Facebook meets twitter meets patreon
It’s amazing
Would each member of that network have to run their own relay? I'm not sure but can you not just restrict access to a relay and then give certain npub's (your friends or community) read/write access?
I'm not a nostr dev so just brainstorming here but isn't a private relay similar to a private channel on the nostr network?
It could work I guess in theory. I'd like every individual to run a relay. Maybe instead of a baby shower we should have relay showers.
The private, local community relays are gonna be key in a couple years!
Nostr disrupts multiple social media platforms
- friends only (Facebook)? Private relay
- pay gated content (patreon)? Zap zap baby ⚡️
- micro blog with threads (twitter)? Clients are doing a good job there
We are early and the future of sovereign communication is bright
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It would only be feasible if clients supported NIP-65. Even then, it’ll be challenging since you’d either need to have the users client send the relay metadata info to a million other relays, or have larger proxy servers that do that for you.
With that second solution, you’ve paradoxically increased the centralization of nostr by trying to make it more decentralized.
yes
Everything is possible
how many friends do you have?
Personal question time? If that is your attitude, I would say they probably have more than you. Kidding.
how do you know?
when have we met?
i cannot remember to have met you. help me out.
do you even know what a friend is?
No. Not really. Unless your friends are really spread out, and you don’t have other ways to communicate.