Nostr

is it ok if we start to see a trend of clients building timelines/feeds from their own databases?

say i want to build a timeline of top/trending posts from a relay or under a topic- it is probably better if a client scraps tons of data from a relay into a db, sorts events in the db to create this timeline and serves it to the user from the db instead of the relay.

this is a direction i see- thoughts #[0]? this would be pretty harmful for relay diversity tho

fiatjaf 2y ago

These would not be strict clients according to the spec, so it's probably an anti-pattern and potentially a centralization vector, but it's happening and we can't prevent it. I think it will probably be ok as long as there is client diversity and people get used to moving between clients.

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Mazin 2y ago

How about a separate relay that shows the most popular posts from last 24h or something? Is that preferred? I think we could make that.

fiatjaf 2y ago

Yes, that would be great. I do want to see an app that allows one to browse relay global feeds kind like they were websites. https://github.com/alemmens/nuestr is going that way, but slowly.

hodlbod 2y ago

I still think https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/259 could help provide this additional second-layer functionality in a less-than-centralized way, without putting the burden of switching on end users.