I'm in the same boat, with the same questions! I feel at some point, relays may need to communicate with one another or somethin? whatever the case may be, Its the most optimistic/excited ive been about anything tech/social media wise in a while!
nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 I’m trying to understand the whole nostr protocol in depth (reading all the NIPs and reading the code for common open source clients and relays)
One thing I’m wondering is, at some point in the adoption curve of Nostr wont it be difficult to be subscribed to enough relays to know all the conversations that may mention you?
Especially if paid relays become the default (which makes sense), wont we have to subscribe to a large cross section to make sure we get alerted to all @ mentions?
PS if there are people to follow or podcasts / blogs that talk about Nostr at a technical level I’d love to do my own research, but I’m not sure where to go.
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Agreed, I love Nostr and all it represents. This may just be an inevitable trade off of a decentralised system. I’m not even sure if this is a problem (especially not yet) 😂
But I can imagine if relays start talking together, that may make it impossible to run a small relay (too much to store that’s possibly irrelevant to users that actually use that relay)