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0 pointsjron1y ago0 comments

Unlike web scraping where spaghetti logic is required to follow abstracted JS links, archival of nostr events can be as simple as running a relay and mirroring blog content.[1][2] nostr does a lot of what NNTP did but with additional flexibility.

[1] https://logperiodic.com/rbsr.html#nostr

[2] https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/blob/master/docs/negentrop...

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troupo1y ago

For that you will need to connect to all relays in existence, right?

dtonon1y ago

Not necessarily, the gossip/outbox model (NIP-65) tells clients which relays they should check:

https://mikedilger.com/gossip-model/

It is of course possible to combine this approach with undifferentiated access to well known relays, to fetch content from not followed people.

jronOP1y ago

Users currently tend to push events to massive relays but decentralization is still a goal:

https://raw.githack.com/dtonon/oracolo/master/examples/fiatj...

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/65.md

Still, the short answer to your question would be "yes."

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