Co-locating a community on one relay is also the simplest way to curate community-related events. The community has a clubhouse, and the clubhouse has a library, a room to chat, a game-room, a calendar, etc.
The community can manually curate by labeling, querying, and colocating.
If you start from the domain and drive from there, you have to identify the domain a community encompasses.
A clubhouse. That's the domain. It's a place where the community members congregate.
I think we've naturally done that on SimpleX, Beave. Calling our various groups TheForest and TheLibrary.
They are virtual places, not mere messaging channels. And we are hosts of those places.
Thinking of the community as a group that controls or curates a varied set of events comes from @nielliesmons That bit of brilliance wasn't from me.
But I think the current encryption-focus, rather than location-focus, makes this concept unnecessarily complex and prone to error and leaks. I would like stop and weigh the pros and cons of each focus, as this is a subject near and dear to my heart.
Same conversation I want to have.
To the naive Niel in me, it just sounds silly to put all that effort and complexity into building the most badass secure vault, because you per se want to put it in the middle of Times Square.
A lot depends on your goal. For a group/community, is it about having a private conversation with a group of people that you know or is it about keeping the conversation on a subject, so your feed isn't full of subjects that don't interest you at the moment or at all. Limiting the subject matter would likely be done completely differently because you are happy for new people to join in the conversation. If you want only your desired group to talk, regardless of the subject, it would need to work much differently. If you needed it to be perfectly secure, then it gets way more complex.
It would be nice to have all 3 group/community levels
-- subject matter community (open to new members)
-- friend group (only invited members, but not necessarily needing encryption)
-- secure group (private and encrypted)
The secure group probably would require a private relay. The others could be public.
Yes!! You could even make some parts private (chat) and others open (library and articles). That would help you find new members.
You could even have multliple chat channels with different privacy levels. Like on Slack.
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