Nostr Web Client

sidetrack a little - what are your thoughts on relay marketplace ? This marketplace will incorporate all relays including yours, and categorise them by free, private, community base, channel base etc. Each relays can have its features listed out - I remember you had many diff relays for diff purposes as well.

In this case, users gets to hop on to this marketplace, pick and choose the kind of "feel" they want to have on their nostr, based on the relays. Hence it indirectly helps users understand Nostr and build a real Nostr experience

For example

- if they want a more FB like/community based relays - maybe they pick a private based + clients like coracle.

- If they want twitter based perhaps free + private + clients like primal and damus.

- If they want Ig based maybe exclusive relays with influencers or fashion based with clients like Nostrgram or Iris with the image tiles.

For a relay marketplace developer this could benefit in terms of additional revenue as well as promoting the relay concept. Eventually we may have many relay marketplace it doesn't matter but for now it may help to subconsciously assist users on building their Nostr world

I'm just putting this thought out there maybe to you and nostr:npub1nlk894teh248w2heuu0x8z6jjg2hyxkwdc8cxgrjtm9lnamlskcsghjm9c if you have more suggestions and thoughts, or if anybody wants to build it - I'm sure there are pros and cons to this idea - I don't know who are the relay developers here anymore tbh

someone 2y ago

A lot of people here are worried about relays getting centralized. if you will say bad things about me please do it. i want less share of users, lol.

There is not much love or funding towards relays on Nostr. i am fine with that. but others may need funds. so a review of relays can be useful for people.

There could be a culture where people choose the relays intentionally and support the relays however they can and know that they should support them could be helpful for initiating a Nostr ecosystem. An economy will allow an ecosystem to flourish.

I know there is not many users and users are over provided with relays at this point and the relays won't have proper funding for a while. Just saying there could be a initiation of a culture at some point. I am not saying it will solve the relay funding issue..

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pam 2y ago

i think we wrote sort of the same thing at the same time <3 . I def think there needs to be more story telling on how special relay is. We were so hyped up over relays, now i don't even know what relays I'm using. If there is a grant possibility for relay devs, this would be a perfect opportunity to help build a profit generating business in the long run. I think a marketplace would indirectly help people decide which relays they want to pay for and why. This is not my tech field but if there is anything i can help with, business plan, write-ups, happy to help. And will cheer-lead along the way!