GM!

👀 how might this be achieved?

Nah

#testing

I'll wager that a large percentage of nostr participants are bitcoiners, right? And beyond that, they are high level bitcoiners who understand cold storage and how to protect their own keys.

The average man wants to log on to twitter, facebook or tictoc and get his good feels from those media without even understanding or caring what happens behind the curtain including government and marketing influences.

This was my next question. If you are connected to one relay... does it aggregate with others and share info.

The question begs tho of how much "power" or ownership /control does a relay have ove the content a user creates.

This leads me to think the BEST way to utilize Nostr would be to host your own relay or maybe figure it out with a few people you trust and want to manage together.

This was my next question. If you are connected to one relay... does it aggregate with others and share info.

The question begs tho of how much "power" or ownership /control does a relay have ove the content a user creates.

This leads me to think the BEST way to utilize Nostr would be to host your own relay or maybe figure it out with a few people you trust and want to manage together.

Thanks Shawn. This is so interesting! I was wondering if the relays stored the info for an indeterminate time period in case you choose to re-connect with them.

I still have so many more questions.

Hahaha.

So much fun to learn this computing theory.

I've only been around for 5 or 6 weeks but this is something that I've always foreseen as happening. Clients are the super tool here. Relays are just dumb backends that the average user doesn't care about. They are extremely important, but the average person on the street does not care about that. Because of this, all major clients will run relays and they'll bootstrap their users into use them. We'll go down the centralization path a little bit, but users will have the choice to use other big and popular relays. I do hope that we don't go full down this path. It's still too early to tell. So, I guess the question remains: how do we make relays more important to users? How do we make relay selection important? Should it be part of every client's onboarding process? Do we advocate for that? If a priv/pub key signs in and doesn't have any relays attached to their profile, then display the relay onboarding process? This still leads to clients choosing a default relay list and most users will never go back and update those again because it's not something we've had to do in the last 20 years of social networking. It will take a long time to change that mentality.

One relay connects, in turn, to many others, aggregating their notes, as well as propagating notes it receives to them.