Paying a relay operator for access just feels good. It's as simple as that.
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Global is such a nice experience when connected to only paid.
Your NIP-05 is greyed out - did you maybe delete one of the nostrplebs relays to verify yourself?
No idea. Any idea which relays this could have been?
I believe just having one of these! (Per the nostrplebs help page):
wss://relay.nostr.info
wss://nostr.onsats.org
wss://relay.snort.social
Added one back. Hopefully global doesn't become a mess again.
The moment I add one of those 3 relays back, global becomes a train wreck again. Tried all 3.
This is where Iβm not sure what to do either. Added so many relays from the nostrplebs site suggestions list when I was trying to get my NIP-05 verified and it finally worked. Now I have 15+ relays but hesitant to delete any and lose the verification lolβ¦but would also prefer a cleaner global.
I'll be there dang it! π
Soon!π―- π!
I'm working on setting up one of these as well (:
Any good suggestions of ones to support? What does the connection flow look like? Add in your settings... And then what happens?
There are about 8 of them now that I'm aware of. Once you add the relay, make sure that you check the read and write boxes or toggles, then go and pay for it. Once your invoice is paid, your public key is added to the whitelist database and you're all set.
I'm using:
wss://eden.nostr.land
wss://nostr.milou.lol
wss://nostr.orangepill.dev
wss://nostr-pub.semisol.dev
I may look into more in the coming days as more people move over to paid ones.
Awesome thank you!
Thank you but one small correction there, it is wss://relay.orangepill.dev
Can be paid for here https://relay.orangepill.dev
Is there a way to verify that my posts are reading and writing from these paid relays after I join?

ππ To your kind hearts gentlemen and ladys
Whatβs the purpose of paying a relay?
How many spammers do you think will pay? Not many, so your chances of receiving spam from from a paid relay are way less than from free ones.
Nostr Plebs has made roughly 1M sats over the past few days from spammers. Spammers will pay.
Sure, but much less. So it's easier for an admin to stay on top of.
V4V feels good, whatever form it takes.