Damus
A. A. RON · 159w
Damus recommends relay sets, will soon effectively default/auto-pilot relays. Where this devolves to is most of user base will have no concept of relays, “I’ve got my client and there’s some ba...
Derek Ross profile picture
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.
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preston · 159w
If I run my own relay and users engage with my account, “centralized relays” shouldn’t matter? Isn’t this similar to Bitcoin where every person doesn’t need to run their own node, but they MUST have the ability/option TO run their own node? This is a serious question because I’m not su...
stupleb · 159w
Ultimately things that work don't matter until they stop working in some way. Relays censoring notes for example?
Andrew · 159w
It doesn’t have to be a choice between all users managing their relays vs. full blown relay centralization. As others have said in different ways, we can also have a system where for the default user, “relay autopilot” intelligently figures out which relays to connect to based on the most co...
Fernando Bittencourt · 159w
The relays will be chosen according to the user's interests. You'll want to be on the relay of your friends or anyone looking for information. There will also be relays of specific themes. I quickly see a relay just about football emerging, news will probably be another topic that will soon emer...
btoole · 159w
If one were to make clear some kind of cause and effect to the user relating to what an active selection of relays is responsible for then its kind of easy. I've been messing around on nostr for only a week or so and its not at all clear. Otherwise its pretty awesome :-)