Oddbean new post about login | logout IF THERE IS JUST ONE RELAY OPERATOR PER 10,000 PEOPLE OR SO, AND CLIENTS USE AN OUTBOX MODEL, NOBODY WILL HAVE TO PAY ANYTHING EXVEPT THOSE FEW PEOPLE DONATING CHEAP VMS
YES, I USED TO AGREE, BUT GOSSIP OUTBOX DOES NOT SUPPORT PAID RELAYS AT THIS TIME. IT IS FREE RELAYS ONLY. THIS MEANS, SMOL OPERATORS EITHER HAVE TO RUN A FREE RELAY AND BE ATTACKED BY MALICIOUS BOTS ALL THE TIME OR GIVE UP AND SEND EVERYONE TO A BIG FREE RELAY.
Is adding support for paid relays possible, just not currently implemented? Don't understand the technical underpinnings and trying to learn.
I think so yes. I am formulating a new nip in my head as we speak..
Actually yeah I sat down and tried to write a spec and I realized it's not gossip that will be preventative here.. it's just clients need to be more like nostrudel showing relay information when gossiping and show the users more information about read/write failures when they encounter relays with access control lists that follows have in their relay lists 🧠 LFG
yes, this is why i keep on hammering away at the NIP-42 problem also the activity log of nostrudel is a model that everyone should be following... coracle shows you this information briefly but there's no way to see it once you miss it and yes, paid relays could totally allow access to messages in which the matching pubkey appears without a subscription, this is kinda necessary i think