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Just signed up for Nostr.wine 🍷

I’m getting the sense that even if you run your own relay you’ll need something like filter.nostr.wine to make sure you can communicate easily with the maximum number of people.

I was most interested in filter, but apparently you can’t sign up for that directly.

#[0] - may I suggest additional “buy now” links? It wasn’t easy to figure out how to pay if you’re specifically looking for filter. Oh, and it’s unclear what period of time the 18,888 sats covers. Would be good to add that too!
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Mazin 2y ago

Jay - thanks for the feedback! I can definitely add a buy link to the filter readme page. We could definitely use a rewritten terms of service and clearer definitions on the site but have been distracted building.

As for the period of time question - the 18,888 covers write access to nostr.wine and 1 month of filter.nostr.wine access. We don’t have any plans to add additional payment requirements to nostr.wine but we are hesitant to make “lifetime” guarantees because we don’t know how our infrastructure will scale at 10x, 100x, or 1000x the current size.

Please do let us know if you more feedback or run in to any issues using it!

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s3x_jay 2y ago

One more question… If I've specified wss://filter.nostr.wine as a relay, is it necessary to also have wss://nostr.wine? Seems like that would cause double the traffic for you…

I ask because I repeated saw the instruction to set up wss://nostr.wine and nothing saying not to if filter was set up.

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Mazin 2y ago

They are completely separate. Nostr.wine is just a normal pay-to-write relay. It has geographically distributed regional mirrors and is much easier to scale.

Filter’s goal is to be a PUBLIC relay aggregator/broadcaster and let users decide which paid/private relays they want to choose to be apart of individually.

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s3x_jay 2y ago

I get the difference but doesn’t filter read and write to nostr.wine? So isn’t specifying nostr.wine redundant if you’ve subscribed & set up filter?

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Mazin 2y ago

No, filter only reads from the public relays in the readme list.