Initially, I had the same opinion. But then in the relay home pages, it's mentioned payment is required for both publishing and fetching events. Now I am not sure how this actually works!

It’s not hard to know what relays somebody’s using AFTER you’ve started downloading their messages. But what about when first want to connect to #[2] and I don’t know which relays you’re using.

I added them to the list. But I will need to pay them, right ? Can you please explain a little bit ? It's showing all of them are offline now.

Yes. You need to pay them. To do that, replace 'wss' with 'https' and open that URL in your browser. You will be taken to the home page of the relay.

You enter yours npub and make the lightning payment there and then the relays will start responding to you.

Sorry I don't understand the point.

#[0] pointed out:

> often I don’t know what relays a person is using

NIP-05 seems solve this easily, and of course can work for multiple persons on the same domain pointing to different relays.

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Attempts to build apps "on top of" Nostr or that "use Nostr" are wrong, harmful and abusive, and will necessarily fail.

Nostr wants open protocols to be built on it, not proprietary shit that is trying to use relays as their private free databases. This behavior should not be encouraged.

Think about… 2024 halving time on nostr…

Dude. This is the leakiest possible protocol. By design. Even fiatjaf advises strongly against using it for DMs you don't want exposed, because only one person needs to leak their private key. You can't even delete. You have no control over which server your signed JSON blobs *end up* on. There is no panic button privacy / stalker avoidance mode. No. Nostr is for being heard.

Unless you're hosting a private relay, then your data is only as private as the non-Nostr protections and authentications. Nostr itself does less than nothing for privacy.

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I just came back from Cuba. Not much adoption yet, but the ones who know about it truly believe it is the only way they can circumvent american sanctions and have a better economy. This is the hope for many countries sanctioned by the hegemon.

and if you're using the same pubkey in both clients, jumping between them, you risk other weird race conditions, like if you update kind 0 or 3 in close proximity in both clients you could lose some of those updates