How do you pick and choose relays? I never figured out a good way.

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I kinda played with this lisy

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Good idea!

Paid relays are not a panacea. More about who runs them and if they are a single point of failure. Better to host own relay than pay to access one.

Oh of course, my issue is that I need to first run bitcoin core, then lighting, then host my relay

Same.

I know I need to hook up blastr.

But after that I need tips or a good walkthrough video on how to minimize em to the freeway but still working well🤷🏽

Fewest*

I just joined and paid for alot of them.

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Started posting.

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I'll go one further, what are relays? Bit of a noob here trying to work out how all this works!

you have 19. They support your profile info. Very important here

Does that mean I have like 19 nodes that relay my posts and relay others' posts to me? Is 19 the default? And you can pay to add private relays that might have more users etc?

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Ayee sorry mate, not trying to troll, just new here!

You have 2 paid relays already. What client are you using

Really!? I'm using amethyst

yes look at your relay list. It looks like amethyst defaults them to new users.

Just had a look. Well that's nice of amethyst! Thanks for taking the time mate. I'll have to do some more digging!

Tried and true method 👇

Good method 😂

Make sure you use the kazoo, that’s the trick 😂🤣

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This is a great question; thanks for asking - I've been wondering the best methods and factors here as well -- would be nice to get a 'relay' FAQ going somewhere for sure

Nice to meet you friend. Followed!

I have a tool in Pretty Good Apps that can help with relay selection. It looks through your follow list, makes a list of all the relays they use, and ranks relays according to how many of your follows use that relay.

Still in alpha. But I’m curious whether any other clients do this, or whether anyone would find a tool like this useful. If so I could do some bug fixes / clean up the UX a bit perhaps.

this is actually amazing!

It’s currently available on my desktop app:

GitHub.com/wds4/pretty-good

You can run it in dev mode if you’re comfy with that. There’s an alpha release which ought to work although I can’t guarantee you won’t run into bugs. If you do, let me know and I’ll see if I can fix them! 😊

I will definitely check it out on my computer once my wifi is back up and running! Been confined to mobile 😂

I’m currently working on adding something I’m calling “channels,” the first real application of DCoSL. With channels you’ll be able to select a topic you’re interested in — bitcoin, nostr, politics, carnivore, cat videos, whatever — and your content feed will be from a list of users who deliver high quality content on that topic, as determined by your web of trust. If you don’t see the topic you want, you can create a new one!

These are great ideas! 💡 👏