having been in the computer business for a long time, i've seen several decentralised networks make the same mistakes over and over again, and those same mistakes being solved in similar ways eventually.
"relay(s) originally posted to" ought to be a part of the metadata of a Nostr post, so if a post travels beyond those relays, engagements with that post can be broadcasted back to the original relay(s) by clients.
hmm, so this is the raw data you get for the average post.
it doesn't say in there which relay needs to know about likes/shares/zaps for the original poster to get notified.
so although your post might get shared beyond the relays you sent them to, if they get any engagement there, you would have no way of knowing.
i can't even find "nostgram" on google
you may know me as thor@berserker.town (https://berserker.town/@thor) if you have an account on the Fediverse.
i think there might be a problem with anything i share/reblog from mostr.pub - it's literally NEVER getting any engagement. i suspect it may have something to do with it being a Mastodon bridge and hardly anyone using relay.mostr.pub
*follows 98 people*
*looks at timeline*
*full of own posts*
on the Fediverse, the stereotypical user is a Linux evangelist or progressive.
on here, it's a Bitcoin evangelist or libertarian.
*finds a way of hiding all Bitcoin pusher posts from the global timeline*
hmm, awfully quiet around here 🤔
as far as i can tell, when you follow an account, the relay gets told "i subscribe" but the client doesn't get notified, because that doesn't count as an event. only reactions (likes) are events.
i looked through the specifications for Nostr, and, uh, it doesn't mention follow notifications anywhere, i think?
i officially became old this February by virtue of turning 40. needless to say, i wasn't prepared for it. i'm never prepared for anything. this is my speciality.
20-year-old me would probably be starting 5 new projects after discovering this platform. 40-year-old me is a bit more careful about putting in effort. sometimes, you just need to wait, and problems fix themselves... 😆
since i'm both new to the platform but intimately familiar with computers and how they function and how they can be flawed, i'm probably being a gentler and more informed Nostr novice than most. by contrast, i'll randomly see new people in the global timeline who are not at all so kind and just bluntly say "this place sucks" but i'm willing to give it a chance. but seeing as i like to share my thought process, some of these thoughts are going to question the design of the system.
not rejecting the zap button but it does smell a bit gimmicky in a way, is all i'm saying
all right, so i'm getting loud objections about my questioning of the zap button. but at least it's just civil disagreement and not trolling, although one person did try to tell me it's my fault.
eh, nah, not falling for that argument ❤️
i do, and the zap button does get used, but it feels a bit forced, if you know what i mean?