Nostr Web Client

For Nostr to work I should be able to run a shitty relay on a $3 VPS just to post my own notes and my followers should be able to talk to it. Currently there are dozens of hundred-dollar powerful-machine relays out there and they are all being killed by the DDoS of queries.

Clients must get smarter and automatically know how to find people and fetch their posts even if they are on a shitty relay in the dark corners of the internet.

Once that happens, then it will make sense for the network to scale horizontally, for people to spread around multiple relays instead of always gravitating towards the central set of the same relays where everybody is.

Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

I totally agree with this.

Im budget constrained and spend about 7 USD per month on cloud services. I can take that up a little but I cant afford an AWS or Google bill of hundreds a month

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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 2y ago

We offer them on relaying.io for about $9/mo

Geist 2y ago

I still think the answer is that nostr works as a public handshake layer, you can post on it but its like making a layer 1 transaction. Layer 2 would be like simplex for DMs, keet.io for streams/nests etc. I (without true experience in the topic) feel like I could post a embed from a keet server to nostr, and clients could go straight to the keet server for the meat of the data, rather than relying solely on relays to host everything.