frosty

Software engineer who prefers being outside

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2023-04-21 01:10:51 UTC

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This type of thinking about social networks is ahead of it’s time. Same features with more normie feel coming down the line mainstream in 5 years

2023-04-20 17:23:54 UTC

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Are images not just encoded and stored in relays?

2023-04-20 05:44:55 UTC

What is success for nostr? In social network/blog space, success means going mainstream. I think two things need to happen
1. General relay focused blind fund is bankrolled by someone the likes of Jack. Any relay verifying it is running and NIPS compliant gets paid for operating costs from fund. This is because no regular people will be using LN to pay relay owners, and if enough people come, operating costs will be too high for free relays to make any sense
2. Familiar feeling client. I am highly technical and have been writing code more than 10 years, all clients I have used including Damus do not abstract underlying tech enough

2023-04-18 22:02:07 UTC

Test again

2023-04-18 21:59:47 UTC

Test

2023-04-18 16:24:37 UTC

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Is the idea relays don’t talk to each other so unlike mastodon you can just move to other relays

2023-04-18 16:21:08 UTC

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What is stopping me from running a relay that has code to whitelist other relays like you could on mastodon?

2023-04-18 05:27:34 UTC

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A lot of projects that use docker do get out of hand, but in this case I think it’s a good fit. You have a server and a data store. The perk of docker is it manages your database installation and backup without you downloading anything except docker.
Something I don’t know yet is if there’s multiple relay implementations. That would be an indicator of how likely you are to have to dig through logs. I just joined today… read one of the rust relay setup guides, but are there more? Or one agreed upon implementation all relays use?

2023-04-18 05:15:46 UTC

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But how do you discover relays? Is there somewhere central hosting a “trusted” relay list that you’re pulling from?

2023-04-18 04:03:47 UTC

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What would you do differently for a small group relay if the standard already has high performance

2023-04-18 01:22:25 UTC

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Oh I thought the list of relays were the only ones that exist. I’m new

2023-04-18 01:15:02 UTC

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If a relay is taken off line forever then my posts are all gone then?

2023-04-18 01:11:57 UTC

How quickly are posts replicated across relays?