There is so much to do on the relay side of things on nostr. Unfortunately we have been gasslit into "doesn't matter just make things dumb" for sooooo long. But now there are signs of life. I admit though, at this stage it is still a bit overwhelming to me, the list of tasks I see are needed to move forward.
One of these is fully utilizing NIP66. Clients have been adopting it, and I think to close the loop we have what we need in the spec, but we need more publishers and info in the tags..
Not sure what to do to gather more attention to this but leaving it all up to @sandwich and I is pretty overwhelming sometimes..
Calling all client devs (you could publish monitors)! Halp.
Here is an example of finding NIP17 compatible relays for users to choose from. Obviously they will also need to determine if they have access or gain access via membership in most cases. But it's so close.
nak req --kind 30166 --tag N=17 --tag R=auth --limit 1000 wss://relaypag.es wss://monitorlizard.nostr1.com |jq '.tags[] |select(.[0] == "d").[1]' |sort --unique
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"content": "There is so much to do on the relay side of things on nostr. Unfortunately we have been gasslit into \"doesn't matter just make things dumb\" for sooooo long. But now there are signs of life. I admit though, at this stage it is still a bit overwhelming to me, the list of tasks I see are needed to move forward.\n\nOne of these is fully utilizing NIP66. Clients have been adopting it, and I think to close the loop we have what we need in the spec, but we need more publishers and info in the tags..\n\nNot sure what to do to gather more attention to this but leaving it all up to @sandwich and I is pretty overwhelming sometimes..\n\nCalling all client devs (you could publish monitors)! Halp.\n\nHere is an example of finding NIP17 compatible relays for users to choose from. Obviously they will also need to determine if they have access or gain access via membership in most cases. But it's so close.\n\nnak req --kind 30166 --tag N=17 --tag R=auth --limit 1000 wss://relaypag.es wss://monitorlizard.nostr1.com |jq '.tags[] |select(.[0] == \"d\").[1]' |sort --unique",
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