I've been thinking about this a lot, lately.
Why do we have these "recommended follow" lists, for newbies, that invariably lead to a zillion people following 100 people? Cuz the big, free relays are so full of crap, that everyone only looks at their follow list feed. After all, how else are you going to find something worth reading, in all that mess, if you can't look at the relay stream?
Well, the best answer is:
YOU LOOK AT A BETTER RELAY STREAM.
What is a better relay stream?
A STREAM SOMEONE IS ACTUALLY WILLING TO LOOK AT.
But doesn't that censor people?
NO, BECAUSE ANYONE CAN BUILD THEIR OWN STREAM.
We can share streams. We can have overlapping streams (by syncing our relays with #RelayNeighbors). We can have custom cobbled-together streams from different topic relays and geographically-limited relays, and a couple of personal relays.
We can have streams consisting of 1 stream or 15 streams, from all over the planet. There should be no SinglePointOfTruth on Nostr, or even TenPointsOfTruth, just lots of plebs hanging out with people they wanna hang out with and reading stuff about things they find interesting, and basta.
Silberengel
npub1l5…egx9z
2024-09-25 16:00:53
in reply to nevent1q…zzek
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