Optimal number of relays? Now that I have two paid, does it make sense to cull my list of free relays?
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If you're on mobile and using most clients (which pull from all relays) it will save bandwidth and battery life to reduce the number of relays. You just need to be sure to keep the ones that the people you're following are using.
Or you could use a client like NostrGram that using a caching server to gather all the notes from 150+ top relays and send only a single stream to your device (no more pulling from a dozen or more relays) while still writing to all of your configured relays as per usual.
(Full disclosure: I'm the dev for NostrGram lol)
thanks for the info. I'm spending most of my time on iris from home. Mobile I use amethyst on my android. So, it only makes sense to cull relays on mobile to save battery power?
Battery power and bandwidth. If you have plenty of both then having notes coming in from (and your notes going out to) as many relays as possible is useful for additional redundancy.
I will check out NostrGram. Sounds like it makes sense, especially on mobile.
I’m on 2 paid relays and in filter
From one of them paid relays. My Damus app typically shows I’m connecting to x/7 relays. Usually 5-6/7. So my paid relays are pulling from the free relays too. I’d recommend culling the free relays and see what happens. I will say that my follower found decreased temporarily, but recovered in 7 days or so. It is my understanding that the relays have to sync back up and your not loosing followers.
I did have someone say that you should still be writing to some free relays too, but I haven’t torn back to any yet. I’m not sure I know how to determine what relays I write to on Damus anyway. 🤙🏻