So #relays seem to be the biggest mystery to figure out now.
How many should one connect to?
Which ones?
Paid, free, or a mix of both?
Is it better to trust the client dev than make own decisions?
What are the best materials covering the topic, please?
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It depends, we can freely setup the relay. I have my relays with mixed setup. Paid relay mostly for read data, and write to all the relay. Paid relay to handle spam. Write to many relays so people still easily discover us.
In Amethyst, i can separate between home feed, global feed easily.
Found out that I could read from one relays while broadcasting to others a couple days ago. Not all the clients allow for that as far as I understand.
I believe #[5] doesn’t
I like to use a mix of paid and free. It's easy to swap free ones out of a spam event happens or if your client allows you to configure global to be only paid relays.
Most users will be okay using the relays that s client gives you, because relay management is a new social feature that people have never had to do before. They'll need to add one or two that their friends use though.
With relays, I've found that less is more. Somewhere in the low teens seems to be best, with no more than 20. At least from my own experiences.
Thanks, Derek! I rushed into adding way to many, and will now gradually reduce the number. Hope I don’t lose to many follows and followers as a result. I guess removing the least popular relays will be the best way to go.
You'll be fine. I had over 40 last month. It's a process, but I can attest that it works out.
Having a mix of paid in there does what? Don’t you need to be using paid only to not get spam?
Paywalls are the best solution right now. And, most importantly, you get to pay for using a service that costs money to run. It's a great concept. I enjoy paying for services that I use 🤙
Still don’t see if you’re paying one relay to filter spam but also allowing a free one, won’t spam make it into your feed?
2 options: some clients let you choose which relays show where. You could turn off public relays for global requests but use them to supplement everything else.
Another option is to look for public relays with spam protection. #[11] runs nostr.mom like this.
Lastly, if you do make the hop to paid relays, make sure you checkout nostr.wine and how we are bridging the gap with our filter relay. Read me here: https://filter.nostr.wine
This might help. My personal preference is a small number of popular public and paid relays, but before I had the ability to turn relays off just for global I was using paid relays only and nostr.wine filter/broadcasting to keep good coverage. #[11]
it could, if you don't have a client that allows you to filter that spam. some clients allow you to filter our your global feed based on relays.
