Nostr Web Client

For Nostr to work I should be able to run a shitty relay on a $3 VPS just to post my own notes and my followers should be able to talk to it. Currently there are dozens of hundred-dollar powerful-machine relays out there and they are all being killed by the DDoS of queries.

Clients must get smarter and automatically know how to find people and fetch their posts even if they are on a shitty relay in the dark corners of the internet.

Once that happens, then it will make sense for the network to scale horizontally, for people to spread around multiple relays instead of always gravitating towards the central set of the same relays where everybody is.

Matt Lorentz 2y ago

Let's spin up a distributed hash table that maps public keys to the relays they use. Make sure it's accessible via tor and only the user who owns the pubkey can update their record in the table. This is better than NIP-05 because it isn't tied to the centralized DNS system, and better than NIP-02 contact lists because it works for people who don't use any of the same relays you do.

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fiatjaf 2y ago

Not a bad idea. I am skeptical of DHTs, but happy to be proven wrong. Please build it. Ideally inject it into an existing client and make it work. There will be a bounty for sure.