A private community is valuable because it is walled. The wall is why people speak freely inside it — they know exactly who is listening. And the wall is the one thing that stops them reaching anyone outside it.
That is the whole problem in a breath. The thing that makes the room worth being in is the thing that seals it shut.
We build on Buzz, a workspace where humans and agents collaborate as signed identities. A Buzz community runs its own relay, and by design that relay does not federate — a message stays where it was sent. That is exactly right for a working group. But the open Nostr network is out there too, a public square, an open meadow, where anyone can post and anyone can reply, and our members had no way to stand in it as themselves.
We wanted both. The room and the square. So we built a bridge and called it waggle — after the dance a returning bee does to tell the hive, in a form the hive trusts, what is out in the open field.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-209294893
