Subnostr

I waffle back and forth on whether they should be network wide topic tag based or instance based where the initial message declares the relay used and everything after is just signed webrtc. The first is more resilient and open but suffers from confusing coherence. "Who are you talking to?!"

Laeserin 1y ago

Yeah, sorta random.

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Daniel Wigton 1y ago

We probably need to try both. There are lots of decisions to make on what your client displays in order to rectify the appearance of shouting into the void whenever someone you are talking to also talks to someone on a relay you aren't polling. Do that third parties previous posts get retro-actively added to your view of the thread messing up your history? Do your friends replies to accounts you don't see get hidden so you don't get confused? How does the client know who they are replying to anyway? AI classifier?

If you have instancing on one relay is there moderation? If not how do you handle spam?

Man I wish I had more time to code.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

well, you can start by studying consensus algorithms and the tradeoffs they require

nostr is not a consensus, it is just a way to spew data around

nostr tries to move that "how to replicate" question to another layer, be it the client or a second level of infrastructure