Relay hints can be useful for helping clients create a local database of where to find whom (aside from immediately loading notes you know nothing about), specially when you don't have any other clue about that, but NIP-65, NIP-05, nprofile hints, random guessing and historic event fetching stats, asking some smart indexing services and whatever else could also contribute.
“The [Relay] hints system will never be sufficient, because it encodes changing data into immutable events. The gossip system can be much better (though not perfect), because pubkeys are far more permanent.” ~ @hodlbod
If you change all your relays after being censored (the main value proposition of Nostr) then all your Relay hints break.💔
Relay hints are horrible.🙂↕️
As I said, they're not flawless, but they can definitely help. Coming up with an example in which they break doesn't imply they're horrible and should not be used.
You have just cited a wrong claim from the hodlbod without addressing any of my points. In case you want to do that, here are some more points for you to address: nostr:naddr1qqyrscm9xajxvve5qyghwumn8ghj7enfv96x5ctx9e3k7mgzyqalp33lewf5vdq847t6te0wvnags0gs0mu72kz8938tn24wlfze6qcyqqq823c6zx8e4
Nah, that specific quote isn’t wrong. 🦖
You do outbox your way, I’ll do outbox my way. Let’s test who has more missing notes after.✌️
The example I gave is literally the main value proposition of nostr… relay hints sacrifice free agency. Foolish to latch onto Dino tech.
Interesting approach, I had not considered using relay hints indirectly to infer where someone might be if you can't find their 10002.
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