uncleJim21 on Nostr: It depends what you want to do. If it's shit posting relays seem fine. If you're ...

It depends what you want to do. If it's shit posting relays seem fine. If you're trying to reliably DM to reach a friend relying on a volunteer army of relays might be a bad time.

Nostr DMs do suck. For nostr what would improve it: strict time limited FIFO style relays that only allow you to store messages of a certain size for a week or so. Then your "home relay" or "main relay" retains whatever you want it to. I believe hodlbod experimented with it but not sure how it worked out.

For keet/iroh: the main thing that would improve it would be just running your own "home client" that is always on (a la Start9/Umbrel). That eliminates the problem of "hoping the group chat host's phone stays online". That's not realistic. But a home server mostly staying up, mirroring to his phone and sharing state with the other participants is realistic.