#relay #asknostr
What part will relays have in the upcoming years, different from now? Is it something only techies will provide? Is it something everyone will be able to provide? Is community based relay a thing? What are the biggest difficultiues with relays at the moment?
It will be something you can buy for little money and so can be provided easily for your family or friends.
🙏🏼😊 seems solid
I'm no expert, but I think the community aspect will certainly have something to do with distribution. I think we're already seeing that to some degree. It'll be similar to how different websites hold different content. For instance, if you have children using nostr you would be able to use a relay that's dedicated to blocking adult content. Just my opinion.
Very exciting!
And I think anyone, if they take the time out of their day, will be able to set up their own relay with their own settings. Not sure what route paid relays will take, though. 🤔
News Sites or isolated apps could use a relay. Then a news site can post their news into nostr and also serve them as a classic website. Or like WhatsApp. A company could create a read-only relay so other clients can read (and maybe also write).
So many possibilities!
I think we’ve barely started to scratch the surface of what’s possible with relays.
Imagine topic-focused or geofenced relays.
I would love to see smaller community run relays or even down to family level relays for group chat.
Relays are surprisingly easy to run, they just have to be online all the time.
To me, the big gap right now towards getting more interesting relays is that clients need to allow users to swap between relays and relay sets really easy. This would give you an easy way to switch job or view of the network in a tap or two.
Yup
Thanks! So.. i am doing everything right with my community relay 😁💚
Yes, we need such a setting! Would change a lot as soon as you’re able to decide on what relay you want to share a note, if you mean that !:)
This is the future.
I am setting up a family relay for some friends who have children < 12 years old. I want to offer them a healthy way to consume digital communication.
