btw I was going to mention to y'all, somewhat stealth feature improvement I made to the non-auth relays is the ability to use negentropy sync with other relays. I actually didnt mean to have this turned off but I found a bug last week that had been preventing it.
so for example, if you wanted to sync and/or stream events up/down with thecitadel to another strfry you have running somewhere, it's easy to do. Soon I may release UI options for it.
for example, sync down to a local strfry for dev or to a public secondary relay.
negentropy is really neat 🦕🦖
Can you briefly explain negentropy? I've heard it mentioned a few times, but I don't know what it means yet.
its an add-on to the protocol where two relays can very efficiently find notes they're missing and transfer only the notes they dont have. (for any given REQ)
OH this makes so much sense! I've been thinking for a while relays need to do more to stay in sync for some applications of the protocol. Negentropy sounds like exactly that.
For anyone (like me) who didn't know what "negentropy" means.
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I was afraid to ask. 😂 Sounded like something nostr:nprofile1qqsdcnxssmxheed3sv4d7n7azggj3xyq6tr799dukrngfsq6emnhcpspzemhxue69uhkyetkduhxummnw3erztnrdakj7qgmwaehxw309a6xsetxdaex2um59ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0uxxcg6 would say.
I had no idea either 💁
funny, here i was thinking everybody knew.. 😅✨
It was a hot topic like 4 months ago maybe, never looked into it though
Apparently we all thought everyone else knew 😆
it's actually originally a hypothesis from people like Terence Mckenna and Rupert Sheldrake and others about a contrary tendency to the entropy implied by the laws of thermodynamics (heat death and expanding universe) of order eventually unraveling
it's related to another psychedelic neologism "pronoia" which is the opposite of paranoia - that everyone is secretly out to help you
the protocol is a synchronisation system for between relays that is based on range searches and whatnot, it's not a silver bullet but it reduces the total amount of bandwidth required to get two relays to have the same collection of events...
colby serpa and his project... i forget what it was called, something about merkle trees that can be snipped into bits, psionic merkle trees - is another project that aims to assist increasing consistency between relay databases
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