Most clients add relays by default that 90% of people are on. As for discovery, the only thing making it not work is spam. There needs to be some kind of starting point. This could be solved by promoting smaller relays somehow, and clients could show their local feed, not unlike the local timeline on Fedi.
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Seems like Iris figured out spam somehow. I am on the damus relay too and don't see anything coming from it lol
read its specs and you'll understand what's "global" for iris. nostrgram also follows a similar approach
here: "Iris rejects all content from authors that your social network has not interacted with. You get way less spam, but the downside is that discovery of new users is more difficult, and sometimes you don't see all the messages that appear on other clients."
People here are very generous with follows and interactions though. Once you break through it’s cake.
Ah ty. So if normies interact with them, without realizing it is spam, everyone will be spammed?
Yeah, if all clients do what Iris does then discovery will basically be fixed overnight.
Yup. Do you know what they do exactly?
Basically they don’t show accounts on Global with no followers and that’s it. That alone fixes the spam lol.