Ok. I don’t understand the relay thing?

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Relays are essentially the servers of Nostr. Anyone with the technical know how can run a relay and I think there is even a one-click install for one of the more popular Nostr server implementations.

The one I chose that I linked in my note above is not as fully featured and a little more esoteric but I like Clojure and I'm just running it for fun.

There is no specific reason or advantage to use my relay. As far as current use cases in the wild the only reasons to use a particular relay are for geographically near you for low latency and/or finding a relay that has more capacity, lower utilization etc.

Ok. Got it. THANK YOU!