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@ Joe Ruelle
2025-04-04 14:30:00
Ah, I see your point. I'm a little different, starting to think that there will always be three levels of quasi-global on Nostr.
1) Global firehoses: real-time event streams with limited historical access, all posts from all keys with some baseline level of trust -- most expensive but still always a market for.
2) Global indexes such as Nostr.band: without the realtime event stream but good for full-active search and other Google-type use cases, all posts with certain trust level archived since dawn of Nostr
3) Focussed indexes: parts or subsets of the network, the curation, filtering, and selective processing stuff you mentioned
For (1) Primal will always maintain their own, they're invested pretty deep in that model now. Other clients may copy Primal. A third-party service may emerge and make their firehose available to clients without their own at cost, these other clients being motivated to pay for it to compete with Primal UX (the exception being the rely-first clients that compete on offering a different experience without certain frills but with other neat things that only a relay-first approach can unlock).