3145 sats \ 2 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 17 Feb \ on: i have an npub. how am i supposed to find the relay? nostr
You're thinking about it in terms of "a relay" and that's not what nostr is. It's many, and the notes and profile information is distributed across them. If someone wants to see the notes of an npub, they ask all the relays they are connected to. Gossip model stuff pushes the search out further too. One relay taking something down should have no affect.
If you have suggestions to building nostr the way you prefer a distributed protocol to be, you may want to post those here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips
they ask all the relays they are connected to
This is just dodging the question.
How do I know which relays to connect to? What if none of the relays I connected to are the one that relays notes from the
npub that I want to follow?"Gossip" is just a happytalk phrase... it doesn't scale without a distance metric, and a DHT is nothing more than gossip plus distance metric. You can't expect to connect to everybody on the internet, so as you gossip your way around, you need a way of figuring out if you're getting closer to or farther from your goal. That's what a DHT is.
If you have suggestions to building nostr the way you prefer a distributed protocol to be, you may want to post those here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips
I'm seriously considering it. Posting here was a sanity check to make sure I wasn't missing some obvious existing solution.
Kind of put off that they require a github account though instead of using NIP-34.