Relays are the backbone of Nostr, but some can be slow, overloaded, or just disappear overnight. We get it.
That’s why Azzamo is building a global network of reliable, fast relays across multiple continents.
✅ Europe: wss://relay.azzamo.net
✅ Americas: wss://us.azzamo.net
✅ Asia: wss://asia.azzamo.net
Where are you connecting from? Drop your country below! 🌎👇
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you will have anti-spam measures and administrative controls right?
Yes, we believe in minimal moderation, but we take action when necessary to prevent abuse and keep our users safe, while respecting Nostr’s decentralized nature. We are also transparent about who we block, and you can check our Ban API for details.
For more info, see our Terms of Service: https://azzamo.net/terms-of-service/
Transparent filters are super important for a platform I think. Does your API include information about where someone might find the notes of blocked people? It's kind of pointless I think to say "we blocked @Joe_Shmo for posting spam" if people don't have a way to actually go retrieve those notes to verify you aren't intentionally or accidentally miscategorizing notes.
Also, is your API part of the Nostr protocol? It would be awesome to eventually have it built into clients. Right now, new users are greeted with a huge wall of relays with no good way to distinguish them or guaruntee they are getting the notes they think they are.
That's an interesting idea—adding specific notes for blocked users could improve transparency. Right now, our API doesn’t include a way to retrieve notes from blocked users, but it's something that could be considered in the future. That said, we’re very selective about blocking, and it’s mostly limited to spambots and impersonators of big accounts.
Our API isn’t currently part of the Nostr protocol, and I’m not sure integrating it into clients would be the best approach since we already have NIP-56 for client-side filtering if needed. That gives users more control over what they want to see without relying on a centralized blocking system.
I don't think there is any need to actually retrieve notes for the user, especially for relays that are more picky than you. If a relay owner hates a user or their content, then making that relay store or retrieve notes from that user doesn't seem right to me. If I was defining a standard for relay filter transparency, it would only ask that a relay store the ID of the excluded post, the reason for excluding the post, and the relay that the post was obtained from.
When I talk about developers implementing something like your API, I'm not talking about the user being able to copy your filters, I'm talking about users having the ability to more easily audit relays without ever having to leave their client.
All the free relays are slow and full of spam and yes many disappear overnight. It's because many setup a relay just to investigate and out of interest. Eventually they move on to other things.
I've joined several paid relays but I stick to extremely cheap ones. There is one that only requires 21 Satoshi.
A small fee keeps the relays free from spam and bots. We should all support those type of relays.
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