Nostr Web Client

I know I probably sound like a broken record, but the concept of relays syncing/mirroring content with other relays is going to be super important going forward, and I'd really like to see it become a commonplace feature among relays.

This would make relays interchangeable for most users, since they all have the content the user wants from their followed profiles. Making relays interchangeable means clients can intelligently pick which relays to connect users to based on which are performing best.

This also means that for cases where a user's government tries to block some relays, they can easily connect to others and not lose access to posts. Paid anti-spam relays are great and all, but the fact that I still need to connect to other relays to make sure I see everything kinda defeats the purpose.

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Andrew 2y ago

#[2]

Andrew 2y ago

Yup, going off what I mentioned here, I think it would be ideal for those "default" relays to be used mostly as bootstrapping relays to get the initial data when using a client for the first time.

#[6]

HoloKat 2y ago

Redundancy relays

azz 2y ago

Yeah agreed on that last bit, it’ll be an interesting technical challenge syncing data between all of these though… maybe relay to relay communication as well as user <> relay communication?

phil 2y ago

I’m looking for some sort of tool to do this sort of relay mirroring as I’d like to potentially mirror some content into our Australian relay. I know the strfry relay implementation has this functionality but so far I haven’t found anything for other relay implementations.

Andrew 2y ago

I know #[3] is working on adding it to Nostream relays

phil 2y ago

We are running Nostream so that is good to know.

Andrew 2y ago

https://github.com/Cameri/nostream/issues/41

Follow me down the 🐇🕳️ 2y ago

Aw you did it… how 🤷‍♀️

Cameri🐦‍🔥 2y ago

Yes, it’s a work in progress

Yoniji 2y ago

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fiatjaf 2y ago

You're saying you want all relays to store all the data in the entire world. That will not scale.

Instead clients should adopt the Gossip Model and start being smart about how to find posts from people:

- https://mikedilger.com/gossip-relay-model.mp4

- https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip

Andrew 2y ago

Yeah I should’ve clarified, I don’t mean that every relay should mirror *all* the data from every other relay in existence, but moreso closer to how gossip does it, intelligently picking what to get from where.