If everyone has a local relay, it's essentially P2P, you just call the database where notes are stored a relay. Nostr is still not very good in this scenario, the network relies on a few relays, if they don't work, notes disappear, etc. melvincarvalho (npub1mel…5c24) was doing some interesting research on this.
I think we can get inspiration from protocols such as BitTorrent where adding nodes helps the distribution.
An idea: an experimental relay that listens on localhost, distributes events through Holepunch based network P2P. Not only archives them locally, but distributes interesting events to other such relays. All clients work well, they just think they speak to a relay (well, they do), but the way the relays distribute notes is through a P2P network.
juraj / Juraj
npub1m2…lr8p9
2024-08-27 13:29:26
in reply to nevent1q…0n34
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npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9Published at
2024-08-27 13:29:26Event JSON
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"content": "If everyone has a local relay, it's essentially P2P, you just call the database where notes are stored a relay. Nostr is still not very good in this scenario, the network relies on a few relays, if they don't work, notes disappear, etc. nostr:npub1melv683fw6n2mvhl5h6dhqd8mqfv3wmxnz4qph83ua4dk4006ezsrt5c24 was doing some interesting research on this.\n\nI think we can get inspiration from protocols such as BitTorrent where adding nodes helps the distribution. \n\nAn idea: an experimental relay that listens on localhost, distributes events through Holepunch based network P2P. Not only archives them locally, but distributes interesting events to other such relays. All clients work well, they just think they speak to a relay (well, they do), but the way the relays distribute notes is through a P2P network.",
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