Use a local relay, db, or cache, to store your own notes. This is now really really easy.
Don't assume "free" relays will keep everything you post forever. They're an interim data store, at best. Paid relays are better, but you also have no guarantees and they might have legal requirements to remove things.
Any guide for non technical people on hosting their local relay?
Thank you!
On Android or PC?
jumping in the convo for PC!
Mac or PC.
Also have an nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct running
I think I used these instructions and it seems to work.
I have it just running on localhost and access it over Nostrudel on Firefox like ws://localhost:8080
Thanks! I’ll have a go at it 💪💜
Android, just use #Citrine 🍋
You can also just use Citrine to download your events, even if you use Nostr mostly on your PC.
There's a "Download events" button, that just pulls all your notes from a list of relays. From the code, it seems to pull from your personal relay list, but I might be misreading.
I'm a big fan of this implementation, as a personal backup, just for your own stuff and a short whitelist of faves. It's got a nice GUI and integrates well with Amethyst (client), Amber (signer), and Orbot (Tor).
Use Citrine for Android. Very easy to use.
And who knows who are run relays and which data do they collect and are interested in.
Relays also have the localization issue. The USA has the world's most draconian copyright laws, with Britain as a second place. And the EU has terrible hate speech laws. And etc.
So, a relay might be forced to delete your note, even if it is legal in your own country. Your own local relay is covered by your own country's laws and only accessible over the routes you define.
Its not easy to run a public relay. It will be interesting as soon as there are some compliances with some relays. So relay hosted are not fully responsible for the hosted content but they have to remove it
To add here. I don't think that the relay providers are aware of such problems as they can run into really big troubles and I don't think that they have formed some kind of a smart company
We have decided that whoever hosts and administers our relays should _always_ immediately delete anything they are asked by to delete, without complaint or resistance. Nostr is a nonviolent protocol and everyone can own and host their own data, so nobody else has to protect their events or images.
We also retain the right to remove anything we find offending or illegal from our relays and other servers, and to block whomever we choose.
Public relays are an oxymoron, IMO.
Our wss://thecitadel.nostr1.com is currently still write-allowed, for everyone we haven't specifically blocked, but it will eventually be limited to the same npubs as wss://theforest.nostr1.com, and only be read-allowed for the general public. We don't see this as a real problem, for anyone, as you can use #Alexandria with your personal relay list.
The benefit of subscribing to theforest is that everyone who uses the client at our domain can see your publications and interactions, even if they don't share a relay on their relay list with you, and even if they don't login.
But someone else could host Alexandria and make a different relay the standard client relay. You need at least one, otherwise the client is empty without login, which is sort of underwhelming.
