Hi,
I am new to Nostr and use Amerhyst. I noticed the menu item "Broadcast" in the context menu of a note.
Am I right in assuming that this distributes this note to the relays that have been set up?
Discussion
Yes! This broadcasts the event to the relays attached to your profile.
Welcome to Nostr 🫂🤙🏻💜
Thank you for the welcome and for confirming my suspicions.
I'm having a look around Nostr and find the differences to Fedivers very interesting.
Yes, that is exactly right, but with some caveats.
It will broadcast the note to the relays you have set up to write to in your relay settings, which may not be all the relays you have. Some may be set up for read only.
The relays you send it to may or may not accept the note. For instance, if one of your write relays is a paid relay, it will only accept the note if the note author also has paid for write access to that relay. Likewise, any of your relays that operate on web-of-trust or other criteria for write permissions may reject the note.
The only relays that you can be somewhat sure the note will be accepted by are free and public relays.
Unfortunately, Amethyst doesn't give you much indication about which relays rejected the note or why.
That's right, it would be great if Amethyst could display the status of write operations.