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So one problem I see with nostr is that often I don’t know what relays a person is using. So people follow a bunch, in the hopes of getting some overylap. Has anybody explored using a DHT to register what relays an identity is using? It would be optional, but each nostr key pair could write to a section of the DHT, with messages signed by them, saying what their current relays are. Then when you go to look up an identity, you could get the relay address from there rather than asking all of your relays.

Lots of decentralized projects from BitTorrent to IPFS use DHTs. Although there’s no incentive structure for running them, that doesn’t seem to be a problem given the value / cost that we see in real life situations.

Has this been discussed already? I’d like to know before I dig in to making code and a proposal. Or is there a strong reason why lots of people hate the idea?
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Blockchain Fairy 2y ago

adding p2p elements to nostr clients is highly desirable, i propose people have a home relay where they try to maintain all their notes, this will make advertising a single relay sufficient, we should probably hash chain all our events too

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rabble 2y ago

Well if we started signing our hash chain that potentially brings up the issues that held secure scuttlebutt back. The p2panda, moderator/atacama, and earthstar projects solve that with nifty ways of signing through Merkel trees instead of a linear chain.

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Blockchain Fairy 2y ago

i disagree we dont need to maintain the entire event collection, it just adds security if we have more of the chain and makes it easier to ask a relay for a section of the chain and know if we have everything or how much is missing