Got it, so approx 5k relays tracked inception then? I’m curious what the event/relay distribution looks like. Not so much from a decentralization perspective as much as a behavior perspective. Assuming Damus and Primal rule, do other relays play a role and to what type of user.

Is there a list of the relays being used for the index?

My guess is yes. Testing and improving the app increases with you actually using it. You create your own flywheel.

Native app or mobile/web?

Ok, that's defensible. But while greed can act as a corrective force benefitting those outside the market, it also provides new channels to make the corruption of information profitable for insiders. So I still don't think we've solved anything. We're just getting a free ride to the shit show.

Other than the financial reward for the winner, what aspect of the design is working here? We get better information faster paid for by the participants?

Maybe my problem is not the market, it’s the normalization of it to people who have no business putting money into it. The whole thing seems desperate and predatory. It sits opposite of stack sats, which encourages people to be mindful of their assets. Trying to square the contradiction.

AI is not replacing developers.
Developers are multiplying.
Gatekeepers in disbelief.

You might end up multiplying the same information thus creating volume but not variety. The scarcity of the information is the value, you can’t “make more”. If your text makes 500 distinct claims, expanding it 10x gives you those same 500 claims expressed 10 different ways, not 5,000 claims. It can help make it more robust to context, but it won't get amplified. It’s why contrarian thinkers are both valuable and drowned out.

That discomfort you feel is the gap caused by reality changing faster than your mind can model it.

Same pattern recognition hitting the same limits, different frames telling you to kneel or run.

We build cathedrals to capture the patterns and man sits in awe.

We build machines to animate the patterns and he shudders.

Interoperability and plain text is great, that’s not the argument I’m making. Application logic is how arrays are used to encode things that are application specific in the arrays of notes.

["p", "<pubkey>", "spam"]
["e", "<event_id>", "illegal"]
["r", "wss://relay.example.com", "read"]
["r", "wss://other.relay.com", "write"]
["p", "<pubkey>", "<relay_url_hint>", "<petname>"]

To your point, is nostr a messaging protocol or a social media protocol or a payments protocol or an identity protocol or a publishing protocol. Hard to be all of them all at once.

Not really from a design standpoint since a single company/team dictates the schema. Interoperability is not on their mind.

In the case if nostr, people are not using tags not just for content discovery, they are using them for application logic.