Nostr question of the day: How many relays is the optimum number of relays to connect to?

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That's a brilliant question, love to know this ⚡️

9-10 i guess should be good or else it would just get clustered

Do they all relay the same information?

Excuse my ignorance, but is there a downside to being connected to too many relays?

Not sure.

Global could be filled with spam if you follow the wrong ones.

It may slow the system?

Ahh. That makes sense. Thanks.

Four or so if paid relays

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I would like to know too

haven't really been paying attention to my own list lol

I’d like to add, how do you assess the quality of a relay?

nostr.watch

low latency, high uotime, green across the board

Ty!

i dont know what most of these icons mean in amethyst tho

anyone?

last night I went between 1-69 & I definitely broke something.

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It was a love tap I promise 😘

What happened?

glitchy af

lost folks

spam city

What were the glitches? Interest you lost people when following more relays.

How was the porn spam?

tbf I didn’t keep a list of what I had and kept playing w different combinations

it was a yolo experiment

the spam you mentioned had a presence…let’s just leave it at that 😂

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Couple "aggregators" and a few big ones on mobile. On desktop lot more. But saving mobile relays overwrites desktop. So maybe clients can use different places for mobile and desktop relay settings.

One thing to keep in mind. The more relays you are connected to the more data you will be consuming. I use nostr.wine + one more paid relay + my own private relay and the public relay I operate. 5-10 relays is more than enough for now.

This relay thing is poorly thought out IMHO ... noobs will never understand it