By the way, this is all about having a very loose type of "community" in kind 1 clients that is easy to set up and can be expanded gradually.
For strictly closed and moderated, traditional Telegram-style chat and forum-like "communities" (or "groups") the solution is still raw NIP-29 (or the single-selfhosted-relay multi-room Flotilla approach).
Take a look at https://github.com/Nostrord/nostrord and https://grimoire.rocks/.
npub180…jh6w6
2026-02-23 13:16:12 CET
in reply to nevent1q…qst3
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2026-02-23 13:16:12 CETEvent JSON
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