First attempt at running with only paid relays. Tried with only the following:
eden.nostr.land
nostr.inosta.cc
nostr.plebchain.org
nostr.wine
relay.nostr.com.au
relay.nostrati.com
relay.orangepill.dev
🌐 feed is clean and beautiful
🤨 some npubs and notes don't load at all
Added back:
relay.damus.io
relay.snort.social
Missing notes loaded again, but so did 🌐 spam.
Anyone else care to share their experience?
Running 20/21 relays now, 5/6 are paid. Can load almost everything and quite fast considering I am on on phone (Amethyst) and the average loading time I have experienced since now on Nostr. Usually I stay far from global, Amethyst's folloes replies feed is a good alternative. I think many clients should add it. Very nice work @vitor 🤙🍀 (can't tag 🤔)
I am doing the same experiment. I have 6 pay relays, almost the same as you. Because of how some clients work, you need to have your updated list on some popular relay, so I have one in write mode only.
My experience is the same as yours.
The workaround I see is to enable some popular free relays and use a client that lets you choose what relays to see in Global, for now I only see Nostros doing this. But I think this would be very welcomed in other clients.
Hi Daniel, I am having the same “issue”. By only selecting paid relays, the global feed gets much better, but the rest of the experience feels more buggy. Many notes and profiles are either loaded with some delay or do not load at all
Haven't tried paid-only yet, but am guessing you lost a bunch of follow/followers? Not a big issue as it's easy to rebuild follows, and followers can get there whenever
perhaps it's worth contacting some of the npubs you're having trouble loading so they can make sure that their kind0 is pushed to more relays.
would be nice if you could filter the kinds of messages you want from relays. (join a big relay for 0 only events)
