I didn't think about it very much but sounds like a good idea.
Today's #nostr idea:
Notification-only relays
If we think about the ultimate decentralized version of Nostr, it would be that everyone runs their own relay to host their own notes.
That would pose a scaling issue, because if you follow 1000 npubs, you have to check 1000 relays to stay up to date.
What if we had some shared relays (notification-only relays), containing only notifications that an npub has posted something, but not the content. So it's just a signal that if you are following them you should go get the new stuff from their personal relay. Running such a notification-only shared relay would have a much lower liability than running a "full" shared relay, because you don't host actual content, and you would also have reduced storage requirements because no content.
Apologies if this is a dumb idea, just throwing this out there
#asknostr #nostrdev nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr
Discussion
You can pick what relays are read and what are write or both now. So if you have a few big relays and also your own you should be able to get the content and post to both your relay and the larger relays. What am I missing here?