Nostr Web Client

Optimal number of relays? Now that I have two paid, does it make sense to cull my list of free relays?

jleger2023 2y ago

If you're on mobile and using most clients (which pull from all relays) it will save bandwidth and battery life to reduce the number of relays. You just need to be sure to keep the ones that the people you're following are using.

Or you could use a client like NostrGram that using a caching server to gather all the notes from 150+ top relays and send only a single stream to your device (no more pulling from a dozen or more relays) while still writing to all of your configured relays as per usual.

(Full disclosure: I'm the dev for NostrGram lol)

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Siggy47 2y ago

thanks for the info. I'm spending most of my time on iris from home. Mobile I use amethyst on my android. So, it only makes sense to cull relays on mobile to save battery power?

jleger2023 2y ago

Battery power and bandwidth. If you have plenty of both then having notes coming in from (and your notes going out to) as many relays as possible is useful for additional redundancy.

cuban 2y ago

Great info, I'm thinking of lowering my relays to just a couple paid to reduce the querying on my phone.

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Siggy47 2y ago

I will check out NostrGram. Sounds like it makes sense, especially on mobile.