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It's funny to see how non-Amethyst users react to our "complicated" relay settings. They think users are stupid and can't figure it out.
We are now a few days in and I am very proud of how our actual users reacted to it. Our UI being quite rudimentary for relay selections but that didn't scare anyone. People asked questions, changed things, and generally kept going.
There was a chance Amethyst Outbox would crash and burn. But it didn't. People are not stupid. You give them the tools, they will figure it out.
Empowering users is a hard thing to do. But it is way better than letting an app hide things from them so much that they don't even know where their content is.
As we move forward, those tools will get better and better.
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you might as well remove the blocked relays list as it does not work, at least that'll be one less relay list to worry about
Real talk: I treat relays like "infrastructure." I honestly don't care which ones I'm on or not on, I just want my notes to be spread to people who might want to see them.
I suspect this is going to be the "default" approach for most new users...
Yep, but if you don't know which relays are doing that, you are just feeding the same algorithms and sales platforms of big tech. Hopefully we can make people aware and empower them to pick and easily move between relays.
I guess I'd rather get "all of the notes" server-side and then decide what I do or don't want client-side.
Then just use Twitter :) the beauty of Nostr is to not rely on any server doing that. Otherwise, there are alfar better protocols out there if the server is allowed to assemble your feed.
What I'm talking about is using the *client* to decide the algorithm, or perhaps open-source DVMs, not the server. Twitter is everything decided by black-box algo.
I.e. Coracle with advanced filtering methods, etc.
But these models still just say "give me all the notes", and then filter (by my own choice) what comes through at the client level.
amethyst users > cattle
technology was meant for learning
I'm using Amethyst. Is it supposed to be broken?
The reason it didn't crash and burn for me was, that it just worked without me needing to touch anything after the update. The Relay-Ui definitely needs to be a lot streamlined/simplified tough, any non overly technical user will run for the hills when he encounters the first problem... Btw. I like your innovative ideas a lot, lot, lot ...so don't read that as criticism please, it's work in progress of course!
Yeah i was pretty puzzled about the fbi.gov default relay but it seems to work
