The answer is: Bluesky solves this problem via centralization. Since there is really just one very large relay which everyone is expected to participate in, this relay has a god's-eye knowledge base. Entities which sort through mail and relevant replies for users are AppViews, which pull from the relay and also have a god's-eye knowledge base, and also do filtering. So too do any other number of services which participate in the network: they must operate at the level of gods rather than mortals.
Discussion
What you see from the article, is that:
Everywhere else, relays are the problem.
On Nostr, relays are the solution.
it's incredible they don't consider the idea that there doesn't need to be a global
Well, have you forgotten how many people muted me, for wanting custom relays? Remember the whole censorship debate and the dickpick episode?
i don't remember the dickpic episode but i certainly bumped into some nonsense once or twice
anyway, yeah, it's just becoming normal now, and clients have caches of all the relays and add any new ones you add to it, it seems, even when you log out and remove its data
i mean, my relay now even lets me automatically control who can post to my relay and because of nip-65, i am actually getting people posting their events to my relay who are on my follow list
Well, I guess nobody was sending you dickpicks. 😂
It's amazing how peacefull and family-friendly Nostr is, now. It used to sometimes feel like a warzone because of the lack of customizable relays and outboxes. Everyone was on lol and band, so perverts and scammers and spammers could just hit everyone, with one fell swoop. Now, they have to cross a bunch of gates and hunt us all, individually, and that effectively shuts most of them down, by increasing the effort.
my first nostr gig was helping build sprockets for access control with strfry for cloudfodder
it was and always has been the axe i've been grinding the whole of this year... wen auth... etc