#asknostr GM should I add more relays to improve my experience here and get access to more users? Or does it not work that way? Are we ALL here from nostr, or am I just seeing the folks who use the same relays as me? I zap answers!
Discussion
You see what your relays allow you to see. The relays may have the ability to gossip to other relays that you’re not using so others can see your notes without sharing the same relay. You certainly want a few relays for redundancy but I believe it’s more about the quality of the relays rather than the quantity.
do you know of a good list of quality relays?
I usually just look at whatever nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 is doing. He’s usually more up-to-date than me.
I’ll do that. What a boss he is. I go zap him rn
There's no defined answer to this. I think you need to experiment with them a little and see what works gor you. When I played with the settings I used [Nostr Band Stats](https://stats.nostr.band/) tool. I also always include this one, as a bridge between Nostr and other fediverses, [wss: //relay.mostr.pub](https://soapbox.pub/blog/mostr-fediverse-nostr-bridge/) and
Trying to zap you but link doesn’t work for me - this has been happening a lot this morning. I use strike
Might be my node needs better channels to nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9
nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle do you recommend opening channels directly to Strike?
Sent some sats for letting me know
This is one of the unsolved mysteries of nostr