I'm not opposed to it, but I'm not sure it would help. There is a circular problem involved:
I don't think we've solved advertisements / discovery on Nostr, have we? We can publish stuff announcing something. for example I want to announce that I'm selling a CD player, but who is going to read that announcement? Our followers?
The way most dumb clients would do today is probably to publish that to wss://relay.damus.io, wss://nos.lol and others, then display all announcements from those big relays. This obviously cannot work in the medium term, as such a feed built from these unrestricted relays will be easily flooded with garbage as soon as it becomes mildly popular, and these relays become centralized points-of-failure that deny all the properties of Nostr.
How then?
Once we solve this we can have reliable advertisements of anything, including relays. But since I imagine the only solution to this is by relying on relay-based curation and relay recommendations then we're back at square one?
I don't think we've solved advertisements / discovery on Nostr, have we? We can publish stuff announcing something. for example I want to announce that I'm selling a CD player, but who is going to read that announcement? Our followers?
The way most dumb clients would do today is probably to publish that to wss://relay.damus.io, wss://nos.lol and others, then display all announcements from those big relays. This obviously cannot work in the medium term, as such a feed built from these unrestricted relays will be easily flooded with garbage as soon as it becomes mildly popular, and these relays become centralized points-of-failure that deny all the properties of Nostr.
How then?
Once we solve this we can have reliable advertisements of anything, including relays. But since I imagine the only solution to this is by relying on relay-based curation and relay recommendations then we're back at square one?