1000 sats \ 3 replies \ @jb55 11 Aug 2022 \ on: When stacker news on nostr ? nostr
Some thoughts:
User relays are stored in their contact list. it would be trivial to make a website that connects to and indexes known relays, finds a contact list via some search mechanism, and then shows what relays they connect to. then you could add one of those to your relay list to start communicating with them.
Clients could do this as well, no-one has built this out yet.
Connect to the relay that has the data! In a stacker news world it seems like it would make sense for stacker.news to run their own relay. clients could provide easy ways to discover and connect to these relays. There is a relay recommendation note that can be sent on the network, so clients can gather these, as well as relays stored on user profiles (you can show what are the most popular relays amongst all your peers)
You can query a relay for metadata (NIP11), it could show a stackernews icon with the relay operator's pubkey so you can follow them. The UX on this could be pretty nice!
There is of course no way to guarantee this, typically you would just run your relay to have a way to host messages without trust
Your relay doesn't have to accept all messages. A stacker news relay might have an option to associate a nostr pubkey with your account. It could only accept messages from those registered/whitelisted keys.
Cheers,
Speaking in broad strokes, "we solve them by sort of layering in centralized things." And this is a fine answer! We do this with DNS and certs and it's obviously pretty dang robust.
For context: I mainly want to decentralize SN for censorship resistance (with the added benefit of interop) while understanding the main trade off is UX. Most of these questions illuminate my concerns decentralizing SN might cost more in UX than we gain in censorship resistance. Meaning, I want to gain a lot of censorship resistance and lose little UX.
SN on nostr is obviously more censorship resistant than it currently is, but I feel like today the UX cost is large and the increase in censorship resistance is small - at least until these problems are better understood by me.
Again, nostr is the most promising protocol in the decentralized social media space IMO and I want it to be the protocol that we use. I just need to believe I can build into it good solutions to these problems and tbh I haven't thought about it enough to assure myself I can.
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The benefits of stacker.news integrating would nostr at this point would be interoperability with the wider nostr network. responding to comments from other clients, etc. maybe it might make sense in the future but right now the benefits would probably be marginal. stacker.news already seems bigger than the current nostr network anyways.
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oops failed to reply to @k00b
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