Oddbean new post about login | logout could this be solved by an rss-ish subcription model that sorts/filters based on your input. all while making sure you are using unfettered relays. im new here and spouting idealism. let me know where i went silly.
RSS is very timestamp oriented, so yes we have lots of Nostr clients that are timestamp oriented like RSS. “sorts/filters based on your input” is a very underexplored design space (and very interesting to me). do you have more specific ideas on how this might work?
well, as im as new as this protocol, im looking at the possibilities. i think that a relay that is completely open allows for a client that can at least sort/filter by nip/kind (and if i have my way, geohash). i think that key here is that a client with a simple enough interface could sort by more than the conventions offered within the protocol, but by content, author, and other metadata. i dont see why this couldnt/wouldnt be implemented in damus or primal, but again im new here and still havent fully assessed the landscape.
Fingers crossed… https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1268
more than crossing fingers, talk to some people developing clients/relays to get their feedback or who might point you to any prior art to consider