nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 you might be mad enough to build this relay(?)
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Discussion
I'm totally willing to do any crazy relay ideas you might have.
But how do we know a note will disappear? Do notes ever disappear?
There are notes that have been set to disappear for various durations, some clients allow this, nos social and apparently iris too now, I believe. ( nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 nostr:npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk ) I think I've got this right?
I have no idea how you find out if a note is 5 minutes away from disappearing tho 🥲
Oh, I see what you mean.
Well, that is problematic because there is no way to "query the world" for notes, i.e. there is no "global firehose", so we can't do something like "for all notes that exist check if they will expire". Of course we could cheat and just "get all notes from the top 5 big relays" but that is a bad idea, expensive and against my principles, so I can't do that.
I'm more interested in crazy ideas that might incentivize people to willingly go to a specific relay, like using Jumble, and post a note exclusive to that relay, like, I don't know, "if you reply to notes published on this relay 5 times and your comment gets a like from the author you get the chance to post a note to this relay that is certain to receive some attention".
Got you. I understand. I was more thinking along the lines of discovery and chance encounters with notes/posters who you wouldn't normally find. I think nostr needs a bit of that (not saying this idea of mine is especially good for this).
we're building (or trying to build) that firehose right now
for devs, this will enable:
- real-time Nostr topic clusters you can search/query
- RAG over Nostr (Nostr version of Grok)
There are several of us who have built nostr firehoses. Mostly for caching relays and notifications. More tooling around this is good. And there’s so much to explore with AI.