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Everyone can run their own private relay on nostr. Running your own relay allows you to take control of your own social data for the very first time. Plus, you cannot be censored if you run your own relay. If you don't care about either of these, then this note is not for you.

Running your own nost relay isn't overly hard, but you do need to have your own home server and make some networking decisions. This can be an old laptop, computer, or a Raspberry Pi. You also need to decide how you're going to access your private relay. Are you going to use a VPN like Tailscale to access your relay or are you going to setup port forwarding on your router and go the more complicated route?

If you run your own Bitcoin node, you're probably ready to tackle the above scenarios. In fact, many of the popular "node OS" platforms include the tools to run your own node. Umbrel, MyNode, and Start9 all offer relay solutions.

If you aren't overly technical, but still want to run your own nostr relay, I now have a solution for you.

It's https://relaying.io

You don't need to run your own equipment. You don't need to configure network settings on your router. You don't need to know how to run commands on a terminal window.

Relaying.io by nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 has a simple and easy to use web interface allowing you to spin up a personal relay for you or your family.

But wait? Couldn't Relaying shut down their service? yes, they could. Have no fear, backups are here! Well, they soon will be. Relaying will be adding a backup tool on their dashboard, allowing you to download copies of your social data. You'll be able to use this to import to your own personal relay server or another relay provider if the need arises in the future.

Check it out.

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Discussion

Ben Ewing 2y ago

If it’s called ‘running your own node’ only nerds will do it

Derek Ross 2y ago

exactly, but clicking on 4 buttons on a web page, everyone can do that.

Enki 2y ago

wholeheartedly disagree here. lots of "non technical types" want to run nodes. Of all kinds.

Ben Ewing 2y ago

4 buttons on my parents computer requires weekly visits

Brunswick 2y ago

Why do you want your parents to run their own node?

There are plenty of people that use tooter and faceplant and never even download their tweets for backup.

There are plenty of people that own bitcoin and will never run their own node.

There are people that rely on the government to 'protect' them with guns and will never touch a gun in their lives.

There are people that rely on 'free speech' only to read what other people are paid to write in newspapers and never express their own opinion, not even under their own roof.

Dont try to fix your parents.

Running your own node is for those that are motivated to do so for the good of humanity and for their own security.

Brunswick 2y ago

Be a nerd

Stackmore 2y ago

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ilker 2y ago

I was looking at the website. Seems like it doesnt very cost-effective. Also limit up to 200 users. But it should work great for small private groups.

Stackmore 2y ago

🤙

Stackmore 2y ago

🫂

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 2y ago

💜💜💜🙏🙏🙏

BitBees 2y ago

Sounds interesting!

fractalchris 2y ago

Question for nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8--- (and I'm still learning so I'm probably wrong)--- since no apps besides Amethyst use NIP-95 (the only way to store media on your own relay), and no apps besides Amethyst will actually display NIP-95 media, how is Relaying.io storing users media _AND_ allowing all apps to view the media (images, etc.). Thanks champ!

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 2y ago

The relay implementations we run right now don't support nip-95 (for now)

fractalchris 2y ago

So is there any way currently for a Nostr user to protect/save/backup all their own posts and media files? Or must all Nostr users currently trust and rely on larger 3rd party relays to host their media files?

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 2y ago

I think nip-95 is the only way.

And I personally think it's a good idea but most people really don't like it

Derek Ross 2y ago

It's a good idea, as it adds decentralization and censorship resistance to our media, matching the properties of our text. I think was a bad idea to essentially force relays into accepting them. We just need specialized relays for this and I believe we'd be fine.

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 2y ago

Absolutely, another great use case for private relays. Very easy to host your own media, but very hard for a big relays to host everyone's

fractalchris 2y ago

If I host my own media, do bigger relays ALSO have to store my media in order to pass my media on to others? Or why can't they just RELAY the data instead of storing it?

unclebobmartin 2y ago

You can use a client, like more-speech, that saves all notes to a local database.

From: fractalchris<-Nos... at 07/11 11:44

> So is there any way currently for a Nostr user to protect/save/backup all their own posts and media files? Or must all Nostr users currently trust and rely on larger 3rd party relays to host their media files?

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