It's a Pentium 2.
This is a good concept.
Take a look: https://i.imgur.com/bfVgZSh.mp4
They can query a bunch of different relays for the replies, but replies don't go on the home feed. Also it is not possible to guarantee that you got all replies anyway (and you probably don't want that as there will be spam), so choices must be made.
A view that allows you to manually browse through multiple relays and see replies from them would be ideal.
The goal is not for each person to run their own relay, but they must have that possibility. And one relay per person is an exaggeration, but there could be restricted relays with 1000, 10000 people in them. These relays should be able to run on modest hardware if they're not handling traffic from the entire China.
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The amount of requests is inhuman.
I believe Vultr has them, they're IPv6-only.
Yes, but aside from that we have relay hints in tags, the contact list with relay information in it, NIP-19 nprofile codes that include relay URLs for a given profile, NIP-05 relay auxiliary data. So there are multiple ways of discovering where someone is publishing their stuff. However no clients are doing anything with that data today, aside from https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip.
It is not up. It was planned to handle only requests related to the few people that paid, but instead it was receiving thousands of requests per minute, so I took it down. This is immediately related to the note above.
Indeed, it would be very cool.
As I write this I wonder who is going to read and if I am posting to one of the central relays.
Related: https://fiatjaf.com/3f106d31.html
For Nostr to work I should be able to run a shitty relay on a $3 VPS just to post my own notes and my followers should be able to talk to it. Currently there are dozens of hundred-dollar powerful-machine relays out there and they are all being killed by the DDoS of queries.
Clients must get smarter and automatically know how to find people and fetch their posts even if they are on a shitty relay in the dark corners of the internet.
Once that happens, then it will make sense for the network to scale horizontally, for people to spread around multiple relays instead of always gravitating towards the central set of the same relays where everybody is.
Thank you for bringing this message of obviousness and peace.
Not everything has to be automated.