I have 90 relays. Is that too many? What are their functions?
If you're new to Nostr, paid relays may seem a bit confusing. You just need to do a little bit of up front work.
You need a Bitcoin Lightning wallet. Lightning is a fast, cheap and scalable solution for Bitcoin that makes paying for goods and services extremely easy. Wallet of Satoshi is probably one of the easiest options available. You can also use others too, such as Alby, ZBD or Muun.
You can find a list of all known paid relays at https://relay.exchange. While this website lists plenty of relays and their fees, what it doesn't tell you is their popularity or location. You can ask your followers or the people that you're following which paid relays that they're using or you can view their profile (pending client support) and view the relays that they're using.
Once you know which relays that you're going to try out or use, you'll want to visit their website, pay the admission fee, and add their relay address to your profile. Be sure to enable both read and write capabilities and then save or post the changes. That's it.
These are the paid relays that I'm using and have been using over the past month.
wss://eden.nostr.land
wss://puravida.nostr.land
wss://atlas.nostr.land
wss://relay.orangepill.dev
wss://nostr.milou.lol
wss://nostr.wine
Discussion
Jesus Christ! 🤣 Yes. I had 44 and could barely use Nostr. I had 30 and it was bad. I had 20 and it was bad. If you can get down to the teens, you'll have the best experience.
I have 10/19 and in
dont know what that means.
You are atm only connected to 10 of your 19 added relays
Open the sidebar menu and go to „Relays“. You are only connected to the ones with a green dot.
Yellow = client is trying to connect
Red = no connection at all
Just monitor it regularly. If some relays are often yellow/red then remove them.
13 is the magic number for me
https://nostr.how/relays Those are the servers relaying the notes. Unlike email they don't talk to each other. Hence, you need to connect to the relays of others to talk to them. 90 seems a bit much.
How do I delete relays?
Depends on the client. I'm afraid I can't help you there. I only play around with iris to. https://nostr.how/clients