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If I only download from nostr band, I'm missing a bunch of notes in the feed. So this isn't a standalone download proxy?
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Cyph3rp9nk 2y ago

As I explained to a colleague I am not sure from which relays relay.nostr.band collects the information, its author says from all of them but I cannot verify it.

In my case the combination of relay.nostr.band together with filter.nostr.wine gives me practically all the followers.

At the moment I don't know any relay that allows the reading of "all" in the same way that nostr.mutinywallet.como does with the writing. In this case if I have been able to verify its code and what it does is to read the api of nostr.watch of relays online and to write in all of them.

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brugeman 2y ago

When reply to an event is posted most clients include the source relay in the reply (relay of event to which you're replying). So by reading from one relay you eventually learn about other relays, when users interact with them. That's what my server does. As soon as it discovers a new relay it starts reading from it and expands it's network. Right now the number of active relays I read from is 1126 (at the bottom of https://stats.nostr.band/).

But, it doesn't mean that I will _serve_ all events from all relays to clients. 70% of all events published on big public relays is spam, which I filter. Sometimes there might be false-positives. So it's probably not about 'which relays I'm reading from', but 'was that event spam filtered'.