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Either that or Primal will finally expose their public data as a relay interface (like they already do with single-id queries anyway) and kill antiprimal.net.
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The basic follow functionality of Nostr is outbox-model-powered follow lists, that doesn't need to be solved.

But follow lists don't protect from reply spam, and they don't solve the need that some people have for seeing feeds of content from people they don't follow. Relay-based users and content curation and pubkey whitelisting do.
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nak req -a utxo.one -k 0 --outbox | nak event relay.damus.io relay.primal.net nos.lol indexer.coracle.social
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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?