Can you point me in the direction of information about relays. I am subscribed to about 13 on primal and I don't know if that is even necessary. I tried some of the clients you mentioned today and one talked about needing to add a write relay. How would someone new even know what that is or how to find one to connect to? Maybe I am over complicating this?
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Ultimately, you shouldn't need to worry to much about relays unless you want to join a specific one such as a community or you want to run your own.
13 is a good number. You can explore more relays by visiting https://nostr.watch
Was the client that asked about relays Amethyst or Jumble.social ? I mentioned both today.
Amethyst supports a method called Outbox and Inbox. This is the future and makes Nostr more robust and decentralized.
Jumble allows you to browse relay feeds. It's pretty cool.
I believe the one that mentioned write relays was nostrudel. Also, I would like to learn about running a relay if you can point me in that direction. I guess in general is there a place to learn about all of these different concepts that is easyish to digest?
Oh! Yes, Nostrudel supports this newer concept too and has a lot of options. I believe you can choose defaults or popular relays. nostr:nprofile1qqszv6q4uryjzr06xfxxew34wwc5hmjfmfpqn229d72gfegsdn2q3fgpr3mhxue69uhhxct5v4kxc6t5v5hxs7njvscngwfwvdhk6tcpzfmhxue69uhkummnw3e82efwvdhk6tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsk7wj75
As for running a relay, you'll need to ask yourself what kind run. Will it be a private relay or a public relay? Let me see if I can find some guides.
Probably just a private relay for now so that I could learn the ropes.
For a private relay, I use #haven
Thanks! I'll check it out.