Oddbean

If you want to be an asshole be an asshole on your relay, but you can still be on my relay if you follow my rules. Specialized communities wont come to nostr if anyone can comment on their content because of the chance of vandalism. Nostr itself is an echo chamber and anyone veering from the average perspective is ganged up on disencentivizing others away. switch relays for specifc topics, or groups multiple relays together for different communities. Just like amethyst uses lists to follow hashtags you can do that for relays. Famous user posts, incoming reboost cascade. I get it, I already saw it five times. you can of course have any mix of relays you want and relays that have loose moderation tools thats perfectly fine and now boosting is less annoying if you're cross posting across communities. Reporting is actually actionable because it holds moderators/relay operators accountable for user behaviors because no one likes a community garden where anyone can shit there as they please. its not about "forcing" an echo chambers, its allowing a gradient level of openness.

i guess technically a relay could only allow reading and writing from authorized npubs or they could do heavy filtering to only show content from specific npubs. this is almost similar to what Ditto is doing with their community instances.

And that's fine, let the prebiotic soup be the starting point. You learn the landscape make frens and find where your tribes are, you can worry about how to configure your relays after, especially if you're following others who have already done it.

Essentially, yes. Some methods will work for some people and other different methods will work for others. As long as we have choices and more options for more technical users, but also don't forget about newbies, I think we'll be okay.

i think that creating a "free tier" scheme for reqs that ONLY include a specific npub that is a paid member is one element of making distributed relay data storage more practical another is that the relays need to have garbage collection, so only specialist archivists keep everything and lower the cost of most usage (and archivists can sell that acceses to paid relay operators so they can fetch it and cache it in their GC'd data stores) - and yes, also, my GC implementation is not selective about anything except frequency of access but more advanced GC mark configuration could include things like preferring to purge non-paid member events that have also old parent nodes to be cut off before cutting out the paid relay old events, and so on one of the things i want to do with my work on replicatr is making a "layer 2" event store that you configure with other relays that you share with, so they can distribute events horizontally to shard out storage for users outside of that, tools that let users know what relays are best for getting everyone on their follows both their events and them seeing them would be really useful as well

this probably explains it most nostr:nevent1qqs8m643lu9gtlacsal7ufuk8mgea4v95wj626v7625fekgw0yp3hyspr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgsdcnxssmxheed3sv4d7n7azggj3xyq6tr799dukrngfsq6emnhcpsrqsqqqqqpl2djqg

cc nostr:nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gprpmhxue69uhhwetvvdhk6efwdehhxarj9emkjmn9qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2yhtlun nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdakj7qgkwaehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshspg7dju nostr:nprofile1qqspz8vkaeknfpudjkhmlegtr7qwsyjk6anzw6u2ypx7x3sc2ftzgtspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68y6trdqhxgeg9t5nzw on ReasonTV. The interview that put nostr on the map for me and got me on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi2JbHWd_BM

what I'm more saying is we need closed communities. yes decentralization, yes gossip/outbox etc. A melting pot is nice but we need closed communities to help encourage a focused & thematic discussion. Nostr groups are a mess and i argue the simplest implementation is select the relay(s) for a specific community you want to be in. Will UX be difficult? Maybe, but just like a feed where only posts with a single hashtag comes through, you can do the same for relays. Always optional. Like a faucet, you & the relays choose what level of openness you want. nostr:nevent1qqsqxhad2z4fqca22ljxvu24m2fdn250t475wd6ewlxfhwcshs65fpspr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgsdcnxssmxheed3sv4d7n7azggj3xyq6tr799dukrngfsq6emnhcpsrqsqqqqqps48hmm