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No, it doesn't directly resolve it, but it is the right approach. All your examples are still technically relays, the issue is you have no way to clasify or express them. Adding an arbitrary number (2-3) of new terms and eliminating usage of the term "relay" might address the stated issue, but creates new ones. What are those 2-3 terms? How are they defined? What percentage of alignment does a *relay* need to be a _____. What if there is a relay that us a combination of all 2-3 types in some way in the future?

fiatjaf 3mo ago 💬 1

wss://relay.damus.io/ is a star.

wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com is a planet.

wss://topic.relays.land/whales is an comet.

wss://lang.relays.land/es is a meteor.

wss://nostr.wine is a starplanet.

wss://bucket.coracle.social is an asteroid.

wss://impromptu.relays.land is a comet.

wss://lockbox.relays.land is a small starcomet.

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sandwich 3mo ago 💬 2

And wss://purplepag.es is a blackhole?

Dawn 3mo ago

That would be an astroid belt... a personal, private relay would be a black hole. 😂

The application of cosmological terminology could actually lend a lot of nuance to explaining function... and it fits very well with people's tendency to call Nostr "the Nostrverse".

JeffG 3mo ago

🤣🤣

Keyhan Alizadeh 3mo ago

wss://jellyfish.land is a whole galaxy 🪼❤️

Our proxy will be a kind of wormhole 🫨

hodlbod 3mo ago 💬 3

Are we urbit now?

fiatjaf 3mo ago 💬 2

Does Urbit have a monopoly on names of space bodies? In that case can you please come up with another analogy please?

T shirt sizes

Sandwiches

Boats

Lots to work with here: Beam, Draft, Draft, LOA, LWL, Displacement Params, Hull Type/Shape. And the result will be everyone nostr understands boats and can have a boating accident.

sandwich 3mo ago 💬 1

Periodic Elements

sandwich 3mo ago

errrr, Elements from the Periodic Table :D

falsefaucet 3mo ago

Finally always wanted to try that out /s

sandwich 3mo ago

Lol @ asteroid btw

Brunswick 3mo ago 💬 2

My kneejerk reaction is "this is stupid" because someone else tried using the planet/galaxy analogy with a different social platform. Also, its not self explanatory, but with an explanation the idea might work

fiatjaf 3mo ago 💬 1

We could also use other analogies, like different types of fungi.

Brunswick 3mo ago

If you're going for the least intuitive, then yes, fungi or amendments to compost

sandwich 3mo ago

We could also have RIPs, "Relay Incantation Procedures," with an arbitrary 2 character index, you know something like RIP-01

jurraca 3mo ago

I think of relays like ship nomenclature in the Culture books. Some are "General Systems Vehicles", some are "Rapid Offensive Units", some are ghost ships etc. https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft

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Direita Internacional - ODI (IOR) 3mo ago

wss://relay.internationalrigh-wing.org