Because owning your communication stack is powerful.
I wanted to learn Nostr stack. Running your own relay teaches you the Nostr protocol from the inside out. No one can delete your posts if you run the infra.
Also I have built indexing and search support for my relay.
Nice.
Who can write to your relay?
Today only me, as I am doing some testing. But I can open it to anyone on NOSTR maybe once I finish my testing.
I currently support the following Nostr event kinds on my self-hosted relay:
Kind 0: Metadata
Kind 1: Text Notes
Kind 2: Relay Recommendation
Kind 3: Contact List
Kind 7: Reactions
Kind 40: Channel Creation
Kind 10002: Relay List Metadata
