I'm just saying it's a great (and computation-light) place to start before coming up with all sorts of computation-heavy algos.
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Ah, I see. Took me a minute. Someone could have an app that let's them manage their various communities, including communities only they are a member of, as if they were topic channels. Then you could manually curate the content and settings of your devstuff channel, your foodstuff channel, your homeschooling channel, but also the private GitCitadel channel that you share with the whole team and the public BibleStudy channel that all your Christianity-interested frens and frenemies are in and the semi-public GoDevs channel that you share with Mleku and Fiatjaf.
Like Teams or Slack does.
Yup 💯
Okay, so that model has the
Community: group of npubs≥1 defined by some relationship or topic
Channel: communication definition for the community, minimum one channel per community
One person/entity may have more than one npub and they may reside in different channels, but they can all be managed within one community-viewer, with community interaction limited to the npubs defined for that particular channel
I guess, then the only interaction that doesn't take place within a channel is DMs, right? Everything else would ideally be allocated. Or are DMs just in "Personal Channel for Npubbunchofnumbers", along with a little private notepad, list of articles to read, mailbox settings, etc.?
Yeah, if I have a DM chat with my wife, there's no reason why it could not also have our family calendar, Collab docs, music, movies, ...
Even just for yourself it can be seen as a community of one.
Seeing things as relays/communities all the way down is the easiest way to let normies handle and understand all this. Myself very much included.
We're all used to that format from our current apps.
I can see how Nostr adds value to that, over something like Teams or Slack, as we don't have to tie one user to one account. They can see everything together and we allow them to select one of the predefined accounts for that channel when signing.
there is nothing computation heavy about crafting filters to match a notification configuration, incredibly light, not even much memory