Damus
Derek Ross · 159w
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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 backend something out there cool I’m on nostr f the system” - but which devolves into every other standard social platform out there.

Yes we have “portable” identities but I’m not sure portable keys model saves you here … for all intents and purposes.

The nostr vision as I initially read it was relay-centric. This seems to go the opposite way entirely.

Maybe I’m overstating all this.

But we’re in prime early phase here and this seems the time to really embrace the core nostr model not hide it all.
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Derek Ross · 159w
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. B...
Blake · 159w
I can see how things could go wrong. One issue is that today, relays are all generalists. There are no real specific topic/niche or relay tools/features to focus on hosting specific content. A simple example could be a relay that hosts only a specific list of channel (maybe sports for example), ...
Mike Dilger ☑️ · 159w
Related: https://bountsr.org/design/2023/01/26/relay-based-design.html
Mike Dilger ☑️ · 159w
I think that if we want a non-technical userbase, there is only so much configuration they will tolerate. So for clients that cater to regular people like Damus, it's reasonable to hide some of it.. but not all of it. I think users should definitely choose where to post... choosing where to read f...