Its pretty simple actually
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This is an unhelpful comment. Something can be simple but still be unintuitive and require learning.
What I’m saying is that I see a lot of people making mistakes because they haven’t been given resources or haven’t sought them out themselves.
Currently, how do new users gauge the effectiveness of relays if the client doesn’t have inbuilt tools to shows the stats? Because I would hazard a guess that most people aren’t going to google and finding them
I would actually say it’s the client’s job to teach new users how to operate on nostr
I agree.
I would also like to split feeds into different categories or groups based on hashtag, content, images etc. Would make it alot easier.
I also suggested another developer to merge reposts together and show them on the top of the screen or something else so they dont clutter the screen.
And for education, maybe a guide to all components of nostr, like connecting to relays, posting, etc. Would help alot. And the thing with relays is hard for me to guess because I dont know the potential of it.
Agreed with all points. Your last paragraph is what I was referring to when I said I think it should be the client’s responsibility to make that known on sign up
I would agree with another commenter that relay providers should also provide easy education (once they start charging for entry)
In selling their relay to customers, they should really show why relays are helpful. Seems like a simple enough marketing strategy.
I am worried that this increases centralization drastically. Hopefully there will be ways to avoid that
What is the barrier of entry for starting your own relay?
From my understanding it is doable. If a relay becomes oppressive or undesirable customers will purchase elsewhere. Centralization doesn't happen here IMO.
Why do you think it would?
The same with crypto. Network effects need as much people and on a central platform. Bitcoin solves this by creating incentive to be on that platform, but Nostr has no such thing as that and to be fair, it would probably make it worse.
Message propagation sucks for me, 19 relays connected. Cant load many comments fast, many post not founds and also lost posts of weeks ago.
Fairly low for personal relays, although you need the technical knowledge. There are services out there that will handle that part for you though