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 what's outbox model 
 same

we changed from gossip to outbox model because gossip is a term that means too many things (and people think gossip as in lightning network's gossip) 
 gossip, in computer science distributed systems terminology means "promiscuous propagation of state changes"

but i don't expect you know what that means 
 Agreed, gossip is a confusing name. I prefer outbox model as well. Gossip basically means network traffic, classically speaking lmao. So it’s accidentally misleading, especially since it involves propagating the NIP-65 note. I remember @Mike Dilger making jokes about the name on @gsovereignty podcast after he found out haha — he agrees. 
 yeah, I think we touched on this in our panel about Outbox model and relay traversal in Nostrasia; the name is just an unfortunate accident 😅 
 It's dillinger's way of describing the gossip model. The idea is that you look in an npub's prefered publishing "outbox" for their posts (type 1) and you could "dead drop" to a relay their profile indicates where they prefer to rendevous to pick up their incoming DMs (i.e. "inbox") 
 see, these people hate on mike even though he came up with this as a way to improve user experience

i may hate his choice of programming language but he did it because you all dumbasses never properly supported NIP-65 either!

SLAP! 
 I like mike 
 it's where you advertise where you push your events, and where you read them from NIP-65

most clients don't support it yet, nostrudel is one notable example that does, and it makes it easier to develop relays!

it's got nothing to do with what these other retards say, gossip means "tell it to everyone" ffs what is wrong with you people??? 
 Thats not what gossip means when people are saying it, they use outbox/gossip interchangeably 

Please don't get too triggered lol 
 "rendezvous" would be a more appropriate word but i doubt that will catch on 
 He's already triggered and has started name calling 😂  
 We can settle this peacefully with memes no need for name calling