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verbiricha108d ago

relays should be a first class citizen on nostr clients, not a hidden implementation detail

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HoloKat108d ago

Relay feeds not all that exciting tbh. Same content all across from same people mostly

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verbiricha108d ago

what relays you browsing? i see a lot of variety in the ones that i use

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Vitor Pamplona108d ago

They could, but most implementations just do the basics. There is no reason to attach yourself to something that just does the basics.

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verbiricha108d ago

yes, they absolutely can

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HoloKat107d ago

Need communities

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HoloKat107d ago

🤷‍♂️

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HoloKat108d ago

I don’t know now I removed them - whatever the ones jumble served by default. I didn’t see the point yet, but it’s still the primary explore method on x21. It’s mostly bitcoin content. Relay names don’t give any hints as to what you’re going to find. On Reddit the subreddit name is actually useful, here we have weird ass long relay names.

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HoloKat108d ago

A relay is not a community and follows no rules for the most part (I’ve seen some exceptions like thankful relay). I don’t know why they should have priority if content is not organized by anything

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verbiricha108d ago

relays can have a name, description, and metadata about poasting rules, payments, supported nips, etc. these are underutilized. the fact that most client hide relays has hindered the development of relay as a service solutions, topic - based relays and so on. the success of Jumble shows that many people are happy using relay feeds and the UX can be pretty nice. many people are familiar with the servers/workspaces metaphor like in Discord or Slack.

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HoloKat108d ago

I mean, I looked at them an hour ago and they are still random weird names. It’s not a good user experience at all. The fact that they are even called relays and show which nips they support etc and have reviews is all nonsensical to anyone who hasn’t been here for 2 years. It could be great but I don’t see any real effort or implementation that would make them a good experience. All of the positives I’ve heard have been from nostr power users who understand how nostr works. If relay browsing is so great then it’ll grow in usage and I have nothing against that. I just hope it becomes more clear what each relay does, and why people should even look at that specific one. We still have a long way I think. Let’s see more relay first clients.

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