A relay marketplace sounds cool, perhaps it could go on a nostr informational site for new users (like nostr.how or similar).
sidetrack a little - what are your thoughts on relay marketplace ? This marketplace will incorporate all relays including yours, and categorise them by free, private, community base, channel base etc. Each relays can have its features listed out - I remember you had many diff relays for diff purposes as well.
In this case, users gets to hop on to this marketplace, pick and choose the kind of "feel" they want to have on their nostr, based on the relays. Hence it indirectly helps users understand Nostr and build a real Nostr experience
For example
- if they want a more FB like/community based relays - maybe they pick a private based + clients like coracle.
- If they want twitter based perhaps free + private + clients like primal and damus.
- If they want Ig based maybe exclusive relays with influencers or fashion based with clients like Nostrgram or Iris with the image tiles.
For a relay marketplace developer this could benefit in terms of additional revenue as well as promoting the relay concept. Eventually we may have many relay marketplace it doesn't matter but for now it may help to subconsciously assist users on building their Nostr world
I'm just putting this thought out there maybe to you and nostr:npub1nlk894teh248w2heuu0x8z6jjg2hyxkwdc8cxgrjtm9lnamlskcsghjm9c if you have more suggestions and thoughts, or if anybody wants to build it - I'm sure there are pros and cons to this idea - I don't know who are the relay developers here anymore tbh
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If they’re interested, this could be a collaboration with Nostr.watch. They already have a great listing of relays and the ability to check latency to your location, etc.
yea - and maybe clients can link it up on their sites to as it would benefit them.
I don't know what's the first point of contact for new users of Nostr - this might be word of mouth from a user to another. If there is more media coverage, can reference the marketplace as a well.
I think there is some storytelling of Nostr from a client perspective. The concepts of other digital innovation like tools on Nostr is also slowly growing. But i think there is no enough storytelling on Nostr from the perspective of a relay. Especially on purpose, usefulness, uniqueness, different adoption of users in diff countries, lifestyle etc. Something that would appeal to a tech dev like you guys as well as regular people like us. This is not my tech area but happy to help if there is anything i can help with