What Is A Nostr Relay? \ stacker news ~nostr

What Is A Nostr Relay?thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/nostr-relay/

264 sats \ 7 comments \ @TheBTCManual 2 Jan 2023 nostr

15 sats \ 2 replies \ @Trey 2 Jan 2023

This read was very educative and I must encourage everyone who hasn't to do so, I don't have any idea but I certainly clipped this as a reference... Thanks alot!!

"Nostr is only a protocol for relaying data between different users; how clients display this data is up to them.

You could have a client that focuses on short-form content like Twitter You could have a client that focuses on Direct Messages like Telegram You could have a client that focuses on formats data as a messageboard like Reddit It really is all up to how the client/user interface wants to display the data it extracts from the various Nostr relays it supports."

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual OP 2 Jan 2023

Its a pleasure lol we're all figuring it out together, but it is a most exciting time to see all these technologies birthed in real time and to be a part of it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Trey 2 Jan 2023

I couldn't agree more.... 🙏🏿

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @2big2fail 2 Jan 2023

what if you follow someone who has never had a post on the relays you use? would you not see any of their stuff despite "following" them?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual OP 2 Jan 2023

As far as I understand it that would be correct, you would need at least 1 relay shared for you to find that content

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @moel 2 Jan 2023

Waiting for a days-for-relay service we’re I can pay someone on a different continent to “host” my posts as well.

It’s nearly impossible to boot a person off the platform completely unless all relays ban them, and the more relays spun up, the harder it gets to ban someone. Nostr allows the free market for information to run its course since “there will always be some Russian server willing to take your money in exchange for serving your posts.”

If you’re a provocative character that certain clients and relays don’t wish to display, the ones that do will attract those users and traffic to their relay and client. Trying to chase your information down and pin it to one source becomes a game of whack-a-mole.

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual OP 2 Jan 2023

That would be cool, I think a rating/trust system for relays would be nice too, so you can see which relays are subject to removing content and that can create a market for pricing relays as they compete to host users.

The more controversial users will bring in more views so people can decide if its worth it or not to host