But seriously, I'm sure some of those, including me, have never been a NIP repo admin. Never from the Opensats Nostr board too and Jack doesn' knowt about my existence on Earth.

Real power is being closer to the money. Money kinda dictates what gets implemented (faster). And implementations that come first tend to become NIPs.

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I'll take a loot at Chatmail relays, thanks.

I'm open to learning. Yes, I can't think of any other infrastructure like nostr relays.

Filtering by tags, more than just a few hours of persitence, decentralized (not from one company).

Sovereign domains aside, I'm betting on using nostr relays simply as an ephemeral storage that keeps nostr events persisted for free for 1-3 days tops. This happen to pair well with the fact that most microblogging posts aren't meant to be revisited too far after publishing date.

The source of truth becomes the user devices' local DBs that gets synced (syncing uses nostr relays too).

This could make Nostr its own thing that doesn't need to compete on the same terms of players with deep pockets.

> As if what I would do if I absolutely insist on using Nostr [...] until they are indistinguishable from Email

The thing about email is that everybody only uses gmail/icloud/outlook. That's because they are "free". In the past, you had to pay some money for like 5-10MB (ok for the time) of disk space for a mailbox. Now nobody will pay.

If nostr relays become like email, how can they compete with the 15GB free quota Gmail offers?

Forked NIP-22 and just removed that line 🔥 https://nostrhub.io/compare?a=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fnostr-protocol%2Fnips%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2F22.md&b=naddr1qvzqqqrcvypzplrsshpc8wn3w3tsf0wpcmhu7latqxt4q809nrz7d3fh4s9n9fxtqqrxu6ts95ery36lwfc

Got it. Your spec is an important upgrade to nip44. Ima adopt it.

the AD doesn't need to be decrypted to be read, correct?

if yes, I wonder if it is really ok to reveal kind/scope metadata depending on the use case. didn't think much about it though.

For Nostr, atleast, it depends on what it wants to be. I myself don't understand what people expect from Nostr relays.

I would like Nostr to be free public relays that hold events for just 2 to 3 days, unless you pay them or are an influncer that brings traffic that could be of use for the operator somehow. <- This doesn't need scaled servers.

Though it looks like most of the current users and apps expect big relays and blossom servers to store events and media for free forever, which is an illusion.

I see, there's a need for an indexer to aggregate content from homeservers and then make endpoints available for fetching filtered data, like these: https://nexus.pubky.app/swagger-ui/.

There are pros and cons to doing it this way. Offering a reference implementation full of features from the start has its advantages. Requiring a big server is one disadvantage in comparison to non-indexer Nostr relays.