Agreed, but nostr still has everything to prove and much to be figured out. Once the real traffic arrives, bots and all, it will be interesting to see how _and if_ nostr will be able to handle that….without enduring the same fate as email
DKIM, SPF and DMARC all serve to prevent account spoofing, which isn’t a problem for Nostr and it’s priv/pub keys. The real problem is the opaque structure of mail providers, each with different spam filter mechanisms and preferential treatment towards “safe” origins (gmail, apple, microsoft, aws ses, etc…) encouraging a closed system
Creating monetary incentives for relays to provide a service will be the easy part. Making it such that it won’t slowly centralise over time is the real challenge. And it might be hard to predict what policies would prevent that from happening
Yeah, this is hypothetically what differentiates Nostr from mail servers. Switching mail providers has the high cost that you lose your identity and have to start over, and so mail providers have a lot of sway over users. As it stands relays have no sway over users or their identity. You can jump ship to another relay whenever you see fit, so that’s promising
Client/relay combos feel very dangerous to me. The moment a client will preferentially or worse solely work with its own relay counterpart things can go bad. That being said, as long as your identity is your key pair you can switch clients at will
I can imagine having a relay that I pay to be a member. As a member it agrees to broadcast all my notes + notes of non-member users who are tagged in mu threads so that sufficient context is always stored for all my activity
The mention of more followers = more broadcasting is interesting. If one user has so many followers that their bandwidth alone is costing the relay more than the relay is getting from them, they might have to pay more to be broadcast. Opens up a whole discussion on whether the cost of bandwidth and compute should be covered by the creators or by their followers. I can imagine all sorts of different setups emerging quite naturally
ahaha oh god I repeatedly tapped the “Post” button in thread view because I thought it hadn’t sent my message, but my connection is just slow. Maybe needs to be disabled and show a loading animation?
Oh wow I tapped the “Post” button in the thread view multiple times thinking it didn’t work, but apparently it did but the notes showed up later. And once they did finally show up the next message I was typing got cleared. Maybe the input/post button needs to be disabled while you’re sending a note?
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