One question. What is the use case running Relay on the phone? #asknostr

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There's a couple reasons you might want to run a relay on your phone.

First is just to back up your own notes. It has particularly come in handy if I need to restore my follow list because some random Nostr app I tried out nuked it.

It can also be used as a private local relay for just your drafts and eCash tokens.

Finally, you can use it with Orbot to have it accessible over Tor and use it as your DM inbox relay for truly peer-to-peer DMs.

I see I will test it. Learning by doing :)

A local backup and an offline location to publish notes without network access so that I can broadcast them later.

Yes that good plan. I also think one Relay on the laptop can be good to have.