mind explaining advantages of self hosting relays? cheers!
Discussion
Main use cases for Haven off the top of my head:
- keeping a local copy of your notes (Relay) and media (Blossom)
- serving content to your friends without intermediaries
- escaping bots (WoT)
- serving your own relay feeds on clients like Jumble
- lowering latency (by having a relay on your LAN instead of somewhere around the world
- keeping sensitive notes private (private AUTH relay)
- making Nostr more resilient (it’s easy to take half a dozen public relays offline, but much harder to take down hundreds or thousands of relays)
- importing copies of notes you’re tagged in or have written in the past that are now scattered across multiple relays into a single place
- broadcasting your notes to multiple relays without configuring this in every client
- exporting/backing up your notes
I probably forgot a bunch of use cases, but these are the main ones for me. Hopefully this helps.
helps indeed, appreciate you