Noticing Damus and Snort don’t seem to store their relay lists at in the same kind…
I can tell Damus stores them in the contents in a kind 3…
Where do Snort get theirs from? As we speak, I am having a snort page open with different relays than what I get from kind 3…
Also, it’s friday, might just be that i’m tired and misinterpreting data….
Originally, Damus and Astral (at least) chose to share relay configuration data in the unused contents of kind-3 contact lists, but didn't write a NIP.
Quite a while later NIP-65 showed up for advertising to other clients where you post your shit, so other clients can find your shit (and to a lesser extent, where you pick up shit people want to send you, the "inbox").
These are not the same thing, although they are clearly related. The data I need to configure my client's relays is quite a lot more than the data I want to tell other people about where I post. In fact, I want to lie a little bit.... I post to a relay to archive my stuff, but I don't want other people pulling from that fragile little relay.
Damus doesn't support NIP-65, gossip doesn't support saving to kind-3 content relay lists, some clients use NIP-65 for both purposes, and other clients are all over the map. So nostr is broken, and while we now have a clear direction for how to find other people's relays, we still don't have one for how to share relay configuration data between clients.
There is a proposal to usekind 30002 as a relay list for configuring your client, so things are still changing: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/786
