Both Jumble & Fevela work very well to explore relays. Yakihonne does, too.
Starting out, you can add this, in your settings, as a "write" relay. That will get you active in the group in the simplest way. By doing so, your notes will be published to that feed AND sent to the people who follow you. We can work forward from there :)
I just can't figure out why I can't view notifications in yakihonne.
And I'm assuming spatia points to either jumbo or favela. And that you switched them around at some point. Because I'm back on favela now.
Yes, I switched that recently. The client that opens is for exploring.
To use it for notifications, you will need to add it to your "read" or "inbox" relay list. You won't receive any replies there until after you do that. But then, they will show up in lots of clients.
So I need to add favela to my yakihonne read relays?..
I'm definitely missing something here.
I don't need lot's of clients. Or do I? If I can read and reply to messages in yakihonne do I need more clients?
I'll try to get messages working with grok in yaki.
You don't need to use a lot of clients, no.
Under settings (in yakihonne, if that is the client you like) find your relay settings, add wss://spatia-arcana.com as a "read" relay. "Read relays" are where replies, likes, etc to your notes are sent. Yakihonne will connect to those relays to get your replies for you. You have a lot of relays there right now. You only need 2-3. If you choose to use only wss://spatia-arcana.com for that, your notifications will be filtered by the relays criteria, which is quite strict.
Oh you have it there now! You're set. I would still recommend dropping a couple more of the read relays. You will have a smoother experience.
As far as using many clients, some do things different or better than others. Some do completely different things all together. fevela.me is nice for browsing a single relay's contents, as if it is it's own mini social media feed. Yakihonne does that well, too. If you're uncomfortable hopping around between clients, I'd stick with the one you like until you get a bearing on the way data moves around. You don't need to change your relays every time you visit a new client. Those settings follow your profile.
Well for now I want a place/way to reliably find my messages. Preferably using yakihonne.
Right now notifications of new posts by people I follow are legion. No replies or messages yet.
Where is my profile stored?
And can I change that?
If I change it on one relay will it replicate? If so. How?
I'll ask from and see what it comes up with.
Your profile is like a tiny file of only your most basic info. It exists on many relays. Firstly, your write relays. When you change your profile information, the old copy is discarded, replaced with the new, and broadcast to many relays that do the same discard/replace procedure. When you log into a client, it goes searching the network for the most recent copy of your profile that matches the key you provided. I kind of think of npub as a file name & nsec as the key to access the file, if that makes sense. That's probably not quite accurate, but it's the best analogy I've got.
The more you interact on the network, the more relays end up with a copy of your profile. Things work more smoothly if you use nostr regularly. Relays are just servers run on individual computers, whether it's me with my little vps or a big company's servers, so no one is beholden to keeping your info indefinitely. Old data, unaccessed gets discarded & such
I've been ditching a almost all relays as jumble and favela were complaining about it. So that should improve.
But does yakihonne not show this conversation because of spatia's filtering? This makes no sense to me.
PS. Spatia-arcana is a read/write node. There is also an inbox node should I add that one too?
I do not have the dm inbox turned on. You can remove it from there.
And no, I'm not sure why this conversation isn't showing up in yakihonne. I don't see it either, though it exists on many relays. I'll try broadcasting one of these replies. If that doesn't work, we can ask someone from their team.
Aha! So this might not be a problem with my configuration. I was starting to feel stupid. And grok is utterly useless. Not enough documentation to sift through yet.
I've yet to figure out how yakihonne handles DM's.
