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I meant the/a Kosmos relay, but it could also be a more generic program that follows pubkeys on multiple relays.

From an operator's point of view, it's not fun having to connect to arbitrary other relays via WebSockets, and you have to build in a lot of fault tolerance to deal with timeouts and such.

Another option would be to do this directly in a Nostr client, of course, but then it wouldn't work with arbitrary clients. However, the RS-enabled client can sync all the events posted by other clients and back them up to RS once received.
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Râu Cao ⚡ 3mo ago

Yet another option for more technical users would be to do it with a dedicated sync program on their computer. For example, I automatically sync my Nostr events to my laptop in a background job once an hour. Would be rather easy to just post them to RS from there, too.

That said, I still like the original idea of it being as easy as flipping a switch in the account settings, so that I as a user don't have to worry about any of it.

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rosano.ca 3mo ago

my solution was to setup a personal relay before posting anything, so that i can export things easily if needed.

i resist using most nostr apps because i don't feel like i have my data in the end, and much prefer the patterns of remotestorage where i know there's at least a copy always accessible in a place i control

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Râu Cao ⚡ 3mo ago

One would hope that most Nostr apps respect your relay settings, so that your personal relay is that place.