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semisol · 30w
Relays have 2 tasks: 1. Storing notes 2. Allowing people to query them When you connect to a relay, it uses the WebSocket protocol to communicate (that is what the wss:// is). HTTP is like asking som...
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Some new stuff in here I didn't know fully, but otherwise guess I had a good enough sense about it. Never understood what a websocket is, so maybe I'll make a point to read something about that (now that I know how they fit in).
Would be curious to learn more about indexing, another time, as that sounds interesting but complex (and I'll likely never need to concern myself with details in practice since I don't dev)
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semisol · 30w
WebSockets are simply a bidirectional communication protocol Both parties can talk at once instead of client asks, server responds Indexing is like making a directory of all noted that have certain criteria.