One of humanities most advanced feats of engineering flying over one of our earliest feats of engineering
😂 I was listening to a song that i thought was arabic, and was so confused at what weird ass Arabic dialect it was and why i couldn’t understand a word of it…until I looked it up and realized it’s Turkish LOL
Turkish sounds like an Arabic speaker who’s imitating a French speaker … who is imitating what they think balkan languages sound like
It would only be feasible if clients supported NIP-65. Even then, it’ll be challenging since you’d either need to have the users client send the relay metadata info to a million other relays, or have larger proxy servers that do that for you.
With that second solution, you’ve paradoxically increased the centralization of nostr by trying to make it more decentralized.
It is! Sort of by accident I ended up connected to 75 relays in a development build of Nos. I just moved the event processing to a background thread and the app is surprisingly performant even 75 open websockets constantly streaming events in. You can see the FPS dropping a little and some of the avatar images are slow to load, but for an app that's 3 weeks old I'm pretty stoked! Here's a video of it: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1165004/223445887-cae1ed7c-b8e6-4a0f-942b-db464485bf6b.MP4
Ahhh can’t wait for the testflight link
Iris and Nostrgram have similar solutions to this by using a "friends of friends" approach. The idea is to find a middle ground between an unfiltered global firehose, and a "paid relays only" approach by showing a global feed that includes friends of friends.
Sweet! What are your thoughts on what a decentralized media distribution setup would look like?
The history nerd in me finds this kinda stuff so friggin cool #ancientgreece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropolis_of_Athens#/media/File:Acropolis_3D.stl
Oh shooooot I've found my #Coldplay tribe!
Nice! I assume you already frequent the Vexillology subreddit then? Great stuff there
Fun fact, this was the flag of the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, meant to symbolize that Muslims and Christians in Egypt were united against the British
Is nostrgram storing these things? I was under the impression the relays were the ones storing them and web apps like nostrgram simply loaded them.
If we combine:
- clients using NIP-65 to minimize the number of relays you need to directly subscribe to
- Relays syncing/mirroring with other relays to further decrease the number of relays you need to subscribe to
We get a nostr experience that’s waaaay more performant and lighter on data and battery life.
Doesn’t have to be by default, but it would be a great added benefit to a paid relay vs a free one.