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Indeed. I'm chatting with Nostr users every day through the bridge and it's working pretty well. It will only get better with Ditto. But Nostr clients need to do a better job about discovering relays automatically and using them to find content. Mostr only posts events to 3 relays, and very few clients deal with that appropriately.
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Kekius Minimus 2y ago

What if a bot hit all port 443s on the internet to identify those that speak Nostr, then offer a centralized relay lookup table, along with status and physical location?

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Alex Gleason 2y ago

That exists: https://nostr.watch/relays/find

Ditto can import all relays from this API too:

deno task relays:sync https://api.nostr.watch/v1/online

Then they go into a big SQLite table (pic 1). The problem with this is that it’s centralized.

Instead, the “natural” way Ditto discovers new relays is by analyzing events, trying to find references to relays. If it finds one, it connects to it. (pic 2)

That can probably be abused, so in the future I’m planning to have a relay discovery flow where admins can review and manually approve any relays that have been discovered automatically: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto/-/issues/62