Oddbean new post about login | logout This whole Damus relay #theNuking thing, got me thinking. Why not have some relays that are space limited? say 50gb, the notes get stored in a nuking que destorying the okdest notes asap when space limit is reached. nostr:nevent1qqsrr2mzuv2nms7wvf5wq3kltuyq2fwprqm99yex9gfccvl2usvl2vspz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcpzqvhpsfmr23gwhv795lgjc8uw0v44z3pe4sg2vlh08k0an3wx3cj9qvzqqqqqqy5xmez4
From time to time I consider my own relay and I think “short term” storage of notes to be sufficient for most use cases. This would be the kind of thing I would do.
Short term storage is in some sense more natural for more conversational stuff. Like talking to people irl, are generally a short storage event. Btw, for huge relays another idea would be a similar que system; but counted in notes per npub. aka free storage 1k notes per npub the delete the oldest.
Yes, humans didn’t evolve within a state of having months of prior interactions, so it seems pretty unnecessary for normal interactions. in some sense the expectation of having forever data is created by or at least subsidized by the benefit of the platforms mining that data for something they can sell of you.
Spot on! Personally I often prefer setting chat services to message decay / dissappearin messages. Always feel chatting becomes more natural after that. :)
These would be caching relays, which is a good idea for a speedy and responsive UX. The most boosted, quoted, commented notes would be on the most relays and would increase response times when needed. Sounds like a good idea.
Yes! Good point! Boosts, quotes and interactions provide redundancy. An interesting perspective, with a sort of "marketplace" for what's to store & protect :)
Yup, for larger media, video and audio, this could be even more signifigant and help with load balancing and bandwidth.
This situation reminds me of that time the #kafka queue grew to 150GB and stayed there. I said, "I thought this thing was a queue!" and the boss replied, "If you never delete anything, a queue is just more storage!" FINO: First In, Never Out!
love the parody name; kafka-queue xD
It's a real piece of free software (if you didn't already know; my irony detector is sometimes impaired). The inspiration for the name is ironically unironic: 'Jay Kreps chose to name the software after the author Franz Kafka because it is "a system optimized for writing", and he liked Kafka's work.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka
ahhh, interesting. I thought it was a joke first. Thanks for the article link. Might look further into this, it seems useful for a nostr relay. :)