Oddbean new post about login | logout No, they are not. The entire idea of Nostr as a censorship-resistant thing was always that clients would connect directly to the original source of events as decided by the publisher, so if I follow you and you decide to publish only to relay.bitcoin.ninja then my client should connect to that server directly and fetch your notes.
Yea but in practice (a) clients mostly don’t, and for very good reason - probably you don’t want to leak your IP to everyone you follow and (b) the number of people with their own relay is very small, instead most users rely on some relay existing that will host everyone’s crap for free.
I guess if you ignore relative usage most clients in fact _do_ implement it (Coracle, Snort, Gossip, Highlighter, Habla, Yakihonne, Yana, Voyage). The ones that don't are in process of implementing it (Damus, Amethyst, Nostur, Nostrudel). I'm pretty sure the reason why they didn't implement it in the first place wasn't because of any of these reasons, it was because of a misunderstanding of how Nostr was supposed to work, and also because they followed the example of my first client, which was badly designed and I left that relay part to sort out later because it wasn't clear to me how I was going to do it. Then later some people may have come up with reasons like IP leakage and whatnot to justify their poor initial choices (again, I take the blame for it). In any case if we are talking about a Nostr in which clients _do not_ do the outbox model and just connect to a fixed set of big relays then I'll probably agree with you that Bluesky is better than Nostr.
On IP Leakage. Fiatjaf’s actions speak for themselves. He quietely included analytics that share IP addresses with third parties, without consent, then promoted it prominently on the front page of the protocol area. You can verify this yourself at https://nijump.me (warning: it includes spyware not found in the source). It’s concerning that other developers either ignored this or made light of it, instead of addressing the clear violation of trust. This behavior undermines claims of caring about IP Leakage. https://image.nostr.build/9fe474ffeb8f500c444f453f3aaf26c04e3c9794105d1014e1d1c3a8d4298c52.jpg
