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The load needs to be shared across relays so that people can help by spinning up a new relay, instead of this centralization
Yes please dont everybody use my relay its overloaded
Snort is a web client. The convenience of running a web client means the back-end server is doing some work on your behalf, connecting and posting to relays, making certain UI behaviors more efficient, etc, as browsers cannot directly participate in the protocol.
That's incorrect, browsers can run the protocol just fine. There are other clients without a backend. My client does not have a backend
It's actually very light on webserver resources. Basically you load up the client once and that's it. You can handle vast amounts of traffic on such a client at very low cost
My mistake, i do see lots of websocket connections to relay nodes in my browser when using iris.to, for instance. I would presume all web clients do this or at least the better performing ones?
So what is the true requirement of a web client - to serve up the static html/css/js and the browser does the work from there? This should be a nothing-burger unless I'm missing something.
Yes that's all a client needs to do. For additional services like text search you need a search server etc
Ah yes, makes sense. I think a web client would be well advised to install a Lookup NPUB button that does a direct GET to a profile URL. I'd imagine 80% of the traffic are lookups from Twitter npub shares.
I mean, you could argue this for any client 🤣 Damus is centralization! Stop using Damus! See?
On the way. ⚡️💜
currently switched to hamstr.to looks pretty good
