The only way to form communities is to make relays different from one another.
The only way to make relays different from one another is for them to accept and/or forward some messages to some clients while rejecting and/or not forwarding some messages to other clients.
And the only way for THAT to happen is some kind of user persistence on relays, which kinda sorta exists already with profiles, but it's going to have to be more of a community thing.
Clients will need to have views for single ("primary"?) relays instead of just global and following.
And by that point, you've reinvented fedi to some extent, except the user has his own key instead of his identity belonging to a node.
All that to say that yeah, Nostr by its nature encourages an amorphous blob of pseudo-culture that really isn't interesting at all, kind of like a world where everyone is part of the same, amorphous blob of mixed race (coming soon!)
Coracle already has the ability to view by relay
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You’re basically advocating for a local tl which isn’t a solution. Relays shouldn’t be opinionated or interest based.
That may not have been the intention but I think some of the paid relays may already be like this (that's hearsay though, obv I haven't been on any of them).
I think they’re literally all bitcoin focused, esp since you can’t join any of them without bitcoin.
i fixed it by sending myself a few bucks 10 or so and joined 5 or 6 paid relays, i think i even had money left over afterwards.
Using bitcoin requires you to dox yourself so it’s a deal breaker for me.
Buy Bitcoin, trade it on a decentralized exchange for monero, trade some of that monero for Bitcoin you send to a new address.
Fees will cost a lot doing that but it's simple and easy.
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