Good question i know on amethyst you can "broadcast" and that will repost you not to relays. So for example if you have a note that only on one relay you can rebroadcast to more. Now I'm not sure about relays automatically picking up your notes from the past.
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Good to know about the broadcast feature. New relays fetching older notes would be great.
Depends on the relay. For instance, if you set up your own HAVEN relay, it you can have it automatically import your existing notes.
If you run a Citrine relay on your phone, you can have it fetch your existing notes.
If you are just connecting to a new relay run by someone else, it almost certainly will NOT fetch your existing notes. You would need to manually broadcast your existing notes to that relay.
The last option of broadcasting seems to be the easiest choice. How do I do that?
On another note, hosting my own relay wouldn't be possible without a public IP, right?
You would need to own a domain and set up a VPS with a reverse proxy. Not the most approachable for most folks.
There's also relay.tools for setting up your own relay, which simplifies this, but I am not sure if that relay will import your existing notes.
I believe there is a tool out there for mass broadcasting notes to your current set of write relays, can't remember what it is. Without it, though, you would need to go to each individual note and manually rebroadcast them one by one.
Thanks. I think I'll look for the tool you mentioned for mass broadcasting. Otherwise I'll just have to broadcast them one by one.
Citrine on android literally took me 10 min to set up. There is also a simple privet server (no code gargin) with umbrel unfortunately you have to pay $500 for hardwar though umbrel is like a new ios device from what I could tell. You could set up a HAVEN relay (documentaion on how)
But if your looking to back uo your notes and broadcast simply go to https://backup.greenart7c3.com/ put in your npub (public key) the site will then back up all your infor to a .Json file and also broadcast to other relays automatically