Announcing self-hosting nostr stack Alienos 👽 🛸🦩:

This relay is a light weight relay designed for self hosting, personal use and small communities.

Features:

1. 🌀 Basic NIPs support. (1,9,11,40,70)

2. 📬 DM & Gift wrapped events support.

3. 🔥 Manageable using NIP-86 management APIs. support white-list, black-list for pubkeys, ips, events and kinds. Full control over your relay.

4. 🌼 Supports blossom server with all basic BUDs + BUD-09 reporting blobs.

5. 🆔 NIP-05 server: you can setup NIP-05 server.

6. 🎨 A Landing page on base url containing NIP-11 information to be displayed in web browsers.

7. 📤 Backup all your relay data (database/medias) into any S3 server.

8. 🔍 Supporting NIP-50 Search and NIP-45 Count with hyperloglog.

9. 🚫 Reported events moderation.

You can check documents and code here:

https://github.com/dezh-tech/alienos

Future versions would include following features:

1. Using S3 to store blossom blobs directly.

2. Granting and revoking admin permissions to NIP-86 management on-demand.

3. Relay would notice important moderation changes + reports to moderators in the Nostr using NIP-17 DMs.

4. Plugins: you can add customized strfry-like plugins to your relay for rejecting: events, filters, blob uploads and more.

5. Start9 and Umberl integration.

6. And more...