My sense is that we would start seeing archival relays before too long. That is, relays with slower storage and retrieval that free up the critical path relays from having to keep events at the ready for as long.
I’ve been working on something very tangentially related to this as a side project for a little bit now… wonder if all relay operators are feeling the squeeze as well around storage/service costs 🤔
I very rarely see events older than a month in my timeline having been reacted to, commented on, etc.
Most relays could store a rolling 1-3 months of data and be very useful. Keep hot the metadata kinds 0/3/10002 and then a month of data.
The concern however is a similar problem to broken http links on legacy internet.
I think the archive relay is certainly the direction headed. We don’t need to keep 2 year old data indexed as well as recent. Or we can purge older revisions or replaced events (if stored).
An alternative to the archive relay is paid relays that persist a pubkey/members data for longer periods or forever. I think this will be common too.
All relays all data.. that will die the next couple Nostr 10X jumps.
