Nostr Web Client

when there is a repository storing data for you, you can have cross-installation state, what's the argument against using this part of the relay architecture? redundancy already easy to add just by storing it on other relays, it's encrypted to your own secret so it's not able to be breached by cryptanalysis, and the metadata is mostly worthless except to catch your activity cycle perhaps, and with auth those events can be restricted from non-privileged access and with cache management, a history and a limit on the number of historical versions

JeffG 1y ago

I'd thought about that some but then thought that it'd be better to leave it for now but you're right, as long as we had good encryption that was based on more than just your private key (additional password perhaps) and we had relays that wouldn't allow others to query for these backup blobs then yes, we could store those on relays and other clients could use those to backfill conversation data and other state.

Sounds like a NIP for another day though. It's more general than DMs and Group messages, for sure.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, there is also the matter of services that do reverse proxy/vpn for you so you can run relays on your client PC from anywhere you are online that enables users to directly drop messages in your personal cache relay

this is unfortunately the key problem with the internet, and has been forever, and why i doubt they will ever fully deploy IPv6 - you wouldn't need third parties to run servers then... and add a decentralised name resolution service and none of those makeshifts would be required, people could communicate privately and without any means of disrupting it without massively disrupting the internet