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2023-07-13 11:22:06

b35363 on Nostr: The limited reachability was the first thing that bothered me when I first started ...

The limited reachability was the first thing that bothered me when I first started playing with Nostr.

Since january, I'm conducting a research paper on implementing Gossip and other dissemination algorithms on relays. It really brings me joy and irritates me at the same time 🤣😁....

I feel like everybody's starting to finally aknowledge that there's an issue and what I've been laughed at in 2022 is finally a great concern now

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If thinking in the nostr email model, this is like saying “why doesn’t my client autocomplete the address when I type bob@“.

Well why would it? What bob are we talking about? What email server is he on?”

A big part of what we’ve been masking in our clients is feigning decentralization via a centralized blob of relays. Thats what damus has been doing to make it friendly to users. But its a lie. There is no one global feed. If we want nostr to take off we need to change our clients and ux to stop pretending there is a constant set of relays that eveyone is on.

Damus is the worst offender here, i will start putting more effort into this front. note10d2…xnj0
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