What is better, less or more relays? Since cleaning mine up I’ve noticed way fewer invoices and spam notes. Are there general best practices? Will zap all replies! ⚡️⚡️
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Seeing as you have only 5 I’d say more. I’m digging the mid teens here lately. Upper 20’s was tew much methinks
5 is plenty, if you're using the right 5.
1. a blastr relay like wss://nostr.mutinywallet.com
write only, but publishes to dozens of the top relays.
2. an aggregator - nostr.band, nostr.lol, others
read many many relays with one connection
3. DM considerations. I don't get DMs from some folks unless I'm using the exact same relay. The aggregators don't seem to do those.
I was reducing my relay count. So much bad stuff appears that I am filtering out.
I am filtering bad staffs
it depends. for notes visibility, you need more relays. for global, many free relays got spam. but if your client uses filter, it should be ok