Thoughts: Haven (via nostr:npub196yyptscyzkmruk88593awcsm7dgknrf7phqu2p8mkntmnzxyvwqsdm0v9) is great. I feel like my Nostr setup received an upgrade because of it. My images and video get uploaded to my dedicated Blossom server. Nostr events are published to and read from my dedicated Nostr relays. Both of them are publicly accessible through my personal domain.

Eggstr is a hosted service so it’s not truly self-sovereign, but I’m too lazy to run a public web server from home or manage my own VPS on the cloud. Its one-click solution is fantastic. In theory, they could censor you if they choose but it seems less likely to happen than on centralized shared Nostr services. It’s also a step up from using my home StartOS server that can be connected to only by me via Tor when I’m not home, which is pretty annoying.

I do wish that the relay management tools were better (currently almost non-existent). And I do wish that the Blossom admin login used standard Nostr login instead of username and password (that is provided to me in plaintext) — but that might be a Blossom server implementation thing rather than Eggstr.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with all of this so far.