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I will zap you if you engage meaningfully with this question that is very important to me.

What would the implications be for Nostr as a whole and the individual end-user's experience if the following was *trivially* easy to achieve (read "trivial" as "a single inexpensive btc transaction and now you "just have it forever"):

> An always-on, cloud-hosted personal Nostr relay that requires zero maintenance or setup and is cryptographically owned by you alone. you also serve yourself a client UI that is equally owned by you and unstoppable.

don't let the "cloud-hosted" part scare you. part of "you own it" means you can move it around - including to your own hardware - just as trivially as you were able to acquire it originally.

nicnym 1y ago

Noob here. Let's say I run my own relay and disconnect from all others. Will I see anyone else's posts? Or does the gossip thing need to be implemented for that?

Also what are your thoughts about expiring posts, to limit storage sizes? Then some kind of option where I can "save" posts to my own relay and act as a storage solution for that content as long as it is in my "save list" regardless of the time expiration?

This way we build more of a network similar to bitcoin, only the "correct" blocks are saved, similar to saved content from nostr- difference being it's just whatever content is saved by choice by the relays that will be accessible after the time expiration.

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vinney...axkl 1y ago

I'm definitely a proponent of users "long-term pinning" the stuff *they* care about on their own servers. stitch a bunch of that together and you have patchwork communities with persistent storage for whatever is important to them.

for discussion on other stuff you bring up, see this thread nearby: https://primal.net/e/note1q40q4yez5dc0w3a2227tkgjtfk2ucx583vl9qgg5aqzz50xua8ssvul85w