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No way normies will sign up and pick topical relays, curate their feeds with topical relays and decide which relays to broadcast notes based on the topic.

That is just terrible UX and I don't see a way around it. But that's just my opinion.

daniele 2y ago

With the current clients, probably.

Think of a relay as a forum you have to join to read and participate. You move inside a subarea of your Nostr landscape; after you enter, the interaction is basically the same.

But this sort of UI will emerge only when there are real topical relays to explore. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem now.

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sommerfeld 2y ago

It's much easier and more scalable to add topic metadata to events and use homogeneous relays. Why overcomplicate it?

daniele 2y ago

Topical relays can be private, moderated or undergo to some specific rules (e.g. language).

And sometimes you preferred the convenience of easy reachability, losing the decentralized part.

sommerfeld 2y ago

Not saying they won't exist, just that they won't catch on

daniele 2y ago

Different goals. I agree that topic tags are the easier way and so will probably have more traction.