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what does broadcasting a note do, and why should i want and need to broadcast a note?
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I second this question 🙋♂️
Notes are self signed messages that can be posted to a few relays or a lot of relays.
If you broadcast a note, you push the note from the few relays that you might have read it from to the other relays that did not already know of the note.
It's a way of saying: I like this note, I want it on more relays so it has a better chance of staying around and more people could potentially see it.
It probably helps to boost it so your followers see it too.
Here's a nice pic to illustrate:
this is a great description. sends the note to your relays, not to your followers. another way to extend the note through the nostrverse.
Narrow-casting! Lol!🤣🤣🤣
Broadcasting a note means you are alerting all the relays that agreed to listen to you that you have a piece of text that you want people to see.
Relays are dumb servers, which hold info about who wants to listen to whom, hence when they see someone broadcasting an event, they share that info with whoever listens to them.
Broadcasting is simply an online way to shout “I want everyone to hear this!”