I can't stop thinking about "relay injection".
Scenario:
- I have 4 relays I write to and read from and this forms my overall nostr feed both globally and locally.
- A conference in, say, Amsterdam (call it AmConf) starts up and a nostrich launches a relay just for that conference that I can read from but NOT write to. Only conference attendees/staff etc. can write to that relay.
- I delete one of my 4 existing relays and subscribe to the AmConf relay.
- My entire experience is "re-flavored" because 25% of my relay intake (read) is now from a completely different AND fully themed source (most notes are going to be about the conference since what I'm getting from that relay can only be written by people attending the AmConf).
Am I just getting this whole thing wrong? If I am not then nostr is doing something natively (read this as an 'emergent property') that nothing else does. I started thinking that I should have seen this property in the Fediverse but I never noticed it there. Maybe because most servers are longer lived than nostrasia.nostr1.com (the #nostrasia relay that will be going away now that the unconference is over).
Maybe I'm reading way more into this than I should but I don't think so. I think this is an obscenely overlooked emergent property that adds a vibrancy to the experience that nothing else can. Unless, of course, I have this whole thing wrong and if I do I hope someone tells me.
nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s
nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft
nostr:npub1lunaq893u4hmtpvqxpk8hfmtkqmm7ggutdtnc4hyuux2skr4ttcqr827lj
I think someone could quibble with you over whether it would make exactly a 25% difference 🤣
But I think you’re far from getting everything wrong. I expect we will see more of this exact thing in the future. Purposed relays and short lived relays will expand as the tooling gets better. I think relays choice will become a very big part of how we shape experiences on nostr in the future.
You are correct. 1 in 4 relays does not mean 25% of traffic if the 1 relay only has 10 people writing to it and the other 3 has 1,500. It is only 25% of my "potential" intake.
It would also matter how many people were shared between the relays. The influence of that will go down as relay content specializes in the future.
Indeed.
If I follow a total of 100 people and only 10 of those have write permissions to the AmConf relay then 2 things are true:
1.) I'm already getting notes from those 10 people regardless of whether or not I am subscribed to AmConf relay
2.) You most likely figured out why my theory doesn't hold much water. At least in the Local feed view. Global, I think, would be changed.
What if we had Local, Global, and Federated (Subscription) feeds?
