It looks like spam is picking up again. Web-of-Trust relays (and paid relays) can help with this. Here's a fresh list of WoT relays that you can use.

wss://wot.utxo.one

wss://nostrelites.org <- mine

wss://wot.nostr.party

wss://wot.sovbit.host

wss://wot.girino.org

wss://relay.lnau.net

wss://wot.siamstr.com

wss://relay.lexingtonbitcoin.org

wss://wot.azzamo.net

wss://wot.swarmstr.com

wss://zap.watch

wss://satsage.xyz

wss://wons.calva.dev

wss://wot.zacoos.com

wss://wot.shaving.kiwi

wss://wot.tealeaf.dev

wss://wot.nostr.net

wss://relay.goodmorningbitcoin.com

wss://wot.sudocarlos.com

Remember, everyone can read from these, but you can only write to them if you're in the owner's WoT.

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Is a new reply bot on the loose? I am getting replies.

nostr.land supports WoT based rebroadcast as well :)

does not show up in global feed and similar, but works for loading replies etc, and does not have archive guarantees

if you are a WoT-trusted user and a paying user rebroadcasts your note, it is stored

Beautiful. This sounds like such a good fusion of methods.

I prefer paid relays. nostr.land is niice 🤙

Nice list 🤙🏼

This list is massive

i’m a bit new to all the terminology. I assume i add yours for example, then nicely ask to be approved??

Web-of-Trust relays work by using follower hierarchy. For example, the people I follow and who they follow are in my WoT. Therefore, those people could all write to my relay.

interesting. thank you for the explanation! apologies, still learning

would be grand if these could be links...

Yesss thanks for this

What does it mean to be in the owner’s WoT?

If you're in the owner's WoT: they follow you or one of the people they follow follow's you.

Web Of Trust

I know that … was asking how do you get into someone’s WoT?

They're not doing anything meaningful. Someone's using one or a few computers to annoy the network. Then they'll get tired and somone will do it in another way. If you want to use free & unmoderated relays - that's just what happens. If its too annoying to stand, use web of trust relay or some exclusive one.

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The top free relays that everyone uses are full of spam because the bot farms can easily connect to them. After I removed them I stopped seeing the spam.

I don't know much about how the wot relays work but I use the nostr elites one. I don't think I've seen spam on it. Use paid relays or the wot relays, and if you want to use free relays, use the smaller free relays, just not the popular ones.

The relays in the picture below are the worst for spam. Try not to use them.

https://mar101xy.com/uploader/images/2025/06/02/nostr-spam-relays.webp

I'm ashamed to ask but, what's exactly a WoT relay please?