Niel Liesmons @nielliesmons - 3mo
Relays are Communitues, by default. Surfacing (and using!) them in that way is how you get to their #normielization. To the people around me (of which 90% doesn't use or enjoy Twitter btw) I show this: https://cdn.satellite.earth/eb05a00d6357928c045c898dee476b4ce6ced17e2fa5a0b9bffb212ebb3b6613.png Then I tell them: "Every chat/group/community you see here **is** a Relay (server)" They all get that part straight away and thus know what relays to choose for their outbox 👉 the communities they want to publish in They also grasp pretty quickly that they can publish more than just chat messages in there: posts, articles, events, audio, repos, ... And honestly they get pretty exited about this part specifically. In my designs, every such publication, when opened, displays to what communities it was targeted (and accepted of course): https://cdn.satellite.earth/da6911b627e2d19096bc57d3259b06dfa54f1401a6688c4beac3db5cc5d6c62d.png This helps with community discovery and with helping them understand that they can target their stuff to more than one public community at once. Then, for the inbox-part it comes down to shilling the benefits of having a personal relay: - a backup of all your stuff - fast access and computation for you specifically - having your own inbox that you can set a price or other conditions for - publishing private things exclusively to a whitelisted set of npubs https://cdn.satellite.earth/7bcfe1478007d70033b5e22667be930cb91608923ddf3fa9f5f9270e6c8899b9.png - privacy in general - etc... One last thing that can help is not displaying relays as freaking geeky looking websites 😅. Relays need npubs, and the profile name that comes with it, if you ask me.
Only extremely alpha/unreleased ones. Will start building out my own design in +-10 days.
1. No, with NIP-29 the community isn't the relay. 2. Yes, organization by community > by content type. It's what people naturally do. 3. No, it's not a super app. It's an app that's super good at the conversations/notifications around content types, not at handling/creating those content types. 4. What I'm showing are the most complex screens, because I need productive feedback on those. If people just use Chat, it looks and feels mostly like people's mental model of a Chat app. Groups/people that want to integrate more content types, however, can.
Collab invite = in preparation for you sir
