Private relays can replace all sorts of self hosted apps and make it way easier to be sovereign
Instead of like 10 docker containers you just need one private relay
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Exactly!
Incentive to have a personal relay is huge.
Assuming users won't want/need one is a slippery slope to complicated extra protocols, client-side computation, centralization and terrible UX.
People need to move away from docker. To rely on one thing to contain & run another what happened to the good ol days just upload everything ftp & hit the sites index page?
What are nostr advantages over lets say https://docs.postgrest.org/en/v12/ for such apps?
I don't understand how these two things are interchangeable.
I can imagine a private relay responsible for "proxying" traffic to apps (be it docker or native or whatever).
So that's what puzzles me... just how do you keep a private relay private when everyone can see what relays you're running if you reply to a public conversation like this one?
A proper private relay will require auth from your nsec to read and write, and you could also run it only locally, use a firewall to limit your IP
If you host anything that requires a username and password, it can be replaced with nostr AUTH
Okay... I can prevent others from read/write on my relay by only allowing certain npubs to do so, but how do I obfuscate my relay if I'm someplace like Brazil, who wants to shut me down (I'm not in Brazil, but using that as an example). I would like to be able to hide my relays from being visible at all.
Is something like relay.tools a step in the right direction?