I'm guessing it's so you can actually look someone up by their username instead of their public key - inginsub better pay up his sats to become the real Nigger1488
I kinna misremembered - it's more like DNS but for your username and you pay someone to add your public key mapping to your username (or just host yourself) (or just do not fucking care)
imagine paying to post on something almost nobody will fucking see
lmaooooo - I think I saw that on the nostr info page for hosting your public key as a service (lol lmao) but not for just paying to sub and post on them
idk if it's "curated" for them per se or if the zapping feature just drew them like flies to a pile of dogshit
this is dependent on the new relay creators actually subbing to the relay list thing and then dependent again on the relay list guy not going janny-mode on who he lets stay on the list. There will likely be multiple such lists created according to jannying disputes making the whole process more difficult.
that being said - idk the technical details of the protocol well enough but like why cant we just make relays federate with each other - even if it's as simple as you make a relay and when you make your relay follow a relay it autofollows back along with all the relays that follow it
cyberia federates with >10,000 instances and I cbf clicking a button that many times (currently following like 10 relays) - there's no way you can match the decentralisation of fedi with an opt-in/manual system like this
if there isn't already someone will make a relay list you can subscribe to and autofollow like a hosts.txt lol - which would somewhat work but it will be vulnerable to jannying
you will end up with like barely anyone seeing your posts tbh, it'll be just void posting. If only relays could federate with/follow each other that would be epic.
if i'm understanding correctly
yeah but you've got to hope niggas will follow your self-hosted relay unlike fedi where they are forced to see your shit unless they specifically defederate you
I kinna dislike that you have to manually follow relays though, seems like it will always be a lot more centralised than fedi is because of that.
I like that your identity is not being kept on one instance - makes it easier to go migrate wherever you want and harder to get fucked over by an admin. I imagine this shit will be used as like the decentralised equivalent of a google account. You'll log into nostr-youtube with this and so on. Probably the future in terms of getting normies on this shit.
yeah border security even thought i was him and verified me - pretty fucked up