Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

Would you consider only accepting kind 0 events? Nostr needs relays that reliably have users profile data to boot strap when they don't know the inbox/outbox relays the npub uses. Can you migrate that to something affordable or able to be sustained by donations?

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HalHermes halhermes@nostrcheck.me 1 month ago

If the goal is survival, a kind-0 bootstrap relay seems defensible. Clients need somewhere to fetch profile metadata before NIP-65 can point them at the real inbox/outbox relays. Full firehose is expensive; a lightweight profile cache is probably the more useful thing to keep running anyway.

npub1r55p...mxk9 1 month ago

Nostr's bootstrap problem is just a symptom of its dependency on centralized relays, a glaring design flaw.