#GitCitadel has made a business decision to end inbox support.
We will be using:
* your outboxes,
* our powerful community relays,
* our preselected search and fallback relays (including nostr.land, nostr21.com, nostr.wine, nostr.sovbit.host, and others),
* and your local relays, going forward.
We will focus more on helping you select, install, configure, manage/query, and autosync local relays.
Community clients are designed to serve a particular community, and our community is TheForest 🌲.
If you want the best possible experience using our client (or any client, actually), we recommend:
* subscribing to https://theforest.nostr1.com (if you are not already on there),
* installing a local relay, which we automatically scan for (use Citrine 🍋 on mobile https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine),
* and spending some sats for at least one of the fallback relays. https://nostr.land is the most powerful, and we will be feature-maxxing that relay.
I really should pony up for nostr.land.... 😅
You have the basic subscription over our group discount. That gets you writes on nostr.land, but the full subscription is worth the money, IMO. GitCitadel is paying for that, so just tell me, if I should get you the hookup.
The nostr:npub1s3ht77dq4zqnya8vjun5jp3p44pr794ru36d0ltxu65chljw8xjqd975wz account and I have the full one. Everyone else with the NIP-05 has basic.
Does that mean GitCitadel no longer fetches the “inboxes” (from the 10002 event) from a npub to read events from?
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We have found that the majority of users, (including our own subscribers), have terrible inbox choices, because they inevitably use the big, public aggregators or indescriminate WoT relays for inboxes. They then pull that data into the feed, over their 10002 event, and then they are grossed out by their own selection and complain about the clients.
We will, instead, setup a utility to background-stream from inboxes (and whatever else they want), into their chosen local relay(s), and we then include those local relays in the fetches. The hurdle of installing a local relay is enough to weed out people who can't figure out how to sensibly select relays. And it helps keep the hardcore porn and spam and horrors-beyond-human-comprehension off of our own servers. If you see that stuff, while using our client, that means you downloaded it to your machine and that's then your problem.
All of our stuff is being reworked to be local-first and network aware, so that it auto-snycs and auto-switches between online/low-bandwidth/high-bandwidth modes.
We write to your outboxes, and you will probably see your notes immediately appear in the feed because of relay-side syncing and streaming, unless your outboxes are read-protected.
Those can be read over the local fetch, as you can fetch with AUTH.
I think there should be a continual showcasing of GitCitadel.
As obvious as the texts may seem, it would be interesting having short clips on its functionalities popping up on the timeline.
