How useful is a personal relay that is only reachable behind Tor? I am thinking about setting one up myself, but if no other users can connect to it, it is of little use.
My wife and I run a private relay on our nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll. You don’t have to be technical to do it and they’re a stand up company too. I’ve had one or two instances where I needed to reach out to their support team and they’ve been very good about getting the issue resolved.
Discussion
For us it’s really for archiving our notes in a way that they’re not vulnerable to deletion. If there’s more #thenukening events in the future (I think there will be, especially for free relays), then we would be able to rebroadcast any note we wanted to the public relays.
If your goal is to run a public relay that anyone can plug into then you’re correct that it’s of limited value.