"The archipelago of private islands, the waters are open, pick your ship, chose your destiny."
OK, but how?
Noobs don't know shit about fuck.
How are we supposed to select a relay?
Why do I have a list of relays if I only need one?
NOSTR is only nice for people who are supercoders.
I'm pretty resigned to the idea that there will never be a day where I use NOSTR and I am not disappointed by something I don't know how to deal with including technical glitches and my own inability to work around issues that other, more experienced, more capable users can do with their eyes closed.
I wish I could be inspired by your words.
It's nice in theory but when the rubber meets the road, I get glitches and frustration.
I look forward to the day when there's a "just make it fucking work" option for noobs.
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Where did you get the idea you just need 1 relay? Do you also just use 1 website on the internet?
The whole relay thing just requires people to build intuition around it, and the first people are need to do so are developers. For the most part, client developers either fucked up the relay part (Damus in the beginning, and Primal to this day), or they shoved it into the background.
Its only more recently that developers more broadly are figuring it out and are experimenting and exploring the possibilities. Not just in functionality but also in how they present it to the user.
I don't think this intuition out of reach for the normie, i don't see why it would be; its very analoge actually and maps well to the physical world in many instances. The same goes for keypairs actually.
In any event, Nostr does in fact introduce a new paradigm, and we are just figuring out what the implications are as we go along. As such i am patient and not too worried at this stage. As long as i see progress i remain hopefull we 'get there'.
What client do you use, and have you tried nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q ?
the problem is that even today there are no tutorials so that a person can build their relays or servers, since for that one must use the terminal apart from what Microsoft has just done with Windows 11, it is most likely that the Windows users will no longer be able to run their own relays or servers due to how Microsoft disabled localhost so now the only option to do that is for one to switch to Linux.