I would love to know how these relays are actually working. I am not a tech guy and I’m “running” these relays, such as filter.nostr.wine, meaning, I added them to my list. Yet I wouldn’t know the difference in running or not running them. Supposedly I can “see” what is being “filtered” or “reading” or “writing.” I wish there was a simple man’s explanation as I am interested in learning. All I see on my end is that they are on my relay list.🙏🏼💜
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Everything on Nostr is an event, ranging from your profile/bio info, to user posts, to your contact/follow list, to zaps, likes, etc. Everything is an event and relays store those events when users publish them so other users can retrieve and view them.
I get that part. This doesn’t explain how to use filters, etc. I’m running them, but I don’t see what they are doing.
Oh ok the filter.Nostr.wine relay is a bridge for users who use only paid relays or don’t want to have to connect to a large number of individual free relays, so you can still see content from relays your not connected directly to. They have another relay that aggregates everything unfiltered from multiple free relays, and then the filter relay filters it down to only the people you follow and their follows. It’s all to reduce the amount of spam you see and ensure you see all content from the people you follow.
delete all your relays, what do you see?
I get that part. This doesn’t explain how to use filters, etc. I’m running them, but I don’t see what they are doing.
Oh I have read it. Still, no explanation.
Plain English. How do I use them?
It looks like you’re using it.
you’ve added wss://filter.nostr.wine/npub13wf94nh4qlxdkjef4sa0wn85z55nprj7ql6eathwxd0u8eq3vupq6k87vy?broadcast=true
and you paid for it
so your global should be filtered, you can’t adjust the filters
Hey, great question! The relays you subscribe to are the relays you read and write to. If you have added a paid relay to your feed, but not paid for the relay you will likely have read permissions on that relay (you can see posts from others) but not write (you won’t be able to publish posts to that relay).
The key is to get some really good relays. IMO nostr.wine and filter.nostr.wine are a great place to start and offer great connectivity to nostr with minimal effort.
Tagging some experts here too. Hope this helps! #[2]
What client are you using? Most let you modify your relay settings so you can isolate one in a particular view (like global). This lets you see both how fast it loads and what content it offers.
Damus.
Go to your global/universe view, click the 3 lines in the top right corner, and toggle off all the relays except one. Then leave the global view and come back. Do that for each relay individually and you’ll have clearer answers!!
Thank you brother! #[2]
So I did as you said and every time I turn off a switch it automatically comes back on. I cannot turn them off permanently.
It’s a visual bug I think. if you click off the page and go back to the they line, they will be switched off.
#[1] check out this thread. I’m sure #Amethyst has a similar way to toggle on and off the filter relays.
Yes, it's a bit of a mystery to non-techy people, I agree.