badoom TISH
Discussion
i think availability of proxy tools and services are good for poorer countries and it is not a big deal as a threat to centralization. poorer ones need to hear more about the freedom ideas is what i meant.. there are levels of censorship and USA is still doing a lot better than the rest of the world. a proxy would allow a lot more people to hear the ideas generated on nostr without ruining their data and battery.
i don't propose centralization, how do you come up with that?.
regarding censorship i may do some cleaning of my relays to remove ugly content. however i am not against free speech (of ideas). ugly content is what i think is ugly, like the worst nsfw you can imagine, meaningless spam, ... i am free to specialize in moderation and every op should specialize imo. and thats a good thing.
i think you have too much worries. you made this thing and now worried that it will fail. however i can assure you i am not a bad actor in this. you are looking at wrong places for enemy. i have been providing some relays for months. a lot of relay ops do much more than me (time wise). you should thank us. i am hurt by some of your exchanges.
i get you... proxying is a big deal, and avoiding sending messages repeatedly is a benefit...
logistically, what i see happening is where you have local caches and these let you fetch events efficiently, and when you send requests to them, they do the legwork and catch the data and then anyone else in your area using the cache also can see it without any further traffic and with one fell swoop
it's gonna take time to nut out the details of how to do these things but for sure my research on my local caching suggests so far that you can also cache the media, the media could be compressed further, if need be, where such compression is not damaging to the value of the data (eg, shrinking image sizes)
Sorry, I don't think you're an enemy, I'm very grateful for your services. I was just answering in an aggressive tone, as I often do, but shouldn't.