rodbishop on Nostr: Relays as communities also aligns with team relays for companies and organizations ...

Relays as communities also aligns with team relays for companies and organizations and with relays for individuals. One person or many people you have a relay for your needs.

quoting nevent1q…ff9f

Relays are Communitues, by default.

Surfacing (and using!) them in that way is how you get to their #normielization.

To the people around me (of which 90% doesn't use or enjoy Twitter btw) I show this:

Then I tell them: "Every chat/group/community you see here **is** a Relay (server)"

They all get that part straight away and thus know what relays to choose for their outbox 👉 the communities they want to publish in

They also grasp pretty quickly that they can publish more than just chat messages in there: posts, articles, events, audio, repos, ...
And honestly they get pretty exited about this part specifically.

In my designs, every such publication, when opened, displays to what communities it was targeted (and accepted of course):

This helps with community discovery and with helping them understand that they can target their stuff to more than one public community at once.

Then, for the inbox-part it comes down to shilling the benefits of having a personal relay:
- a backup of all your stuff
- fast access and computation for you specifically
- having your own inbox that you can set a price or other conditions for
- publishing private things exclusively to a whitelisted set of npubs

- privacy in general
- etc...

One last thing that can help is not displaying relays as freaking geeky looking websites 😅. Relays need npubs, and the profile name that comes with it, if you ask me.