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Relay updates:

1) When viewing someone's profile, events are requested from a random selection of 3 of your own relays + 3 of the other user's write relays. Previously it was asking only your own relays, and all of them every time.

2) When publishing an event, it is also sent to mentioned users' read relays (if less than 10 users are mentioned).

3) You can see a list of popular relays in settings / network.
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Warren Togami 2y ago

I understand these changes are necessary to improve reachability but it also expands the number of parties that learn 1) exactly who is reading 2) and when they are reading it and 3) giving up their location while doing so.

I just hope more Nostr users learn they really must use a VPN.

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Sirius 2y ago

I wonder if I could use Tor in the desktop application https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/core/doc/rust/arti_client/index.html

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Warren Togami 2y ago

I tried Iris via Tor exit nodes. It is very slow and unreliable. I switched to VPN and Iris is a lot better now.

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The Guy That Looked Into It 2y ago

I have used Iris + Tor Browser over VPN from day 1. It was indeed laggy at times (maybe because I have 40+ relays), however recently it became much better. Need to try the same set up with a small number of aggregator relays.