Them: Nostr won't scale
Me, connected to 500 relays:
Discussion
1140 on Amethyst🙏
~300 here. I'm amazed at how well it works. I never see the "note not found" message anymore which is nice.
Nice to see. Actually mine didn't work well. It was too much maybe, it was waiting for the slowest responses ir I require weird thing? When I post something, I go back to timeline to see it went through (and how many typos did I toss in this time.) I was deeply bothered that it takes minutes to see my own note. For some reason I started missing a lot of notes of my friends etc.
Yeah some people it doesn't work as well for. I've had nothing but good results with the new version luckily.
Have you tried it since changing to yakihonne? I see your relays are much more minimal now, that may actually help. I notice a lot of people have double digit in & outbox relays, which will actually make it worse rather than better. 2 or 3 is the sweet spot.
Also clicking the "default" button for any that have it in the settings may help too, search & index that's especially make a big difference when they are set correctly.
I'm on yakihonne like two days, so I suppose not much changed. 👀🤭 I had it all set as you wrote, and didn't touch anything for months. Honestly I get migraine anytime I try to read through help. I'll try to go through the fog.
I still think there's issues with very specific relays. If you have 1100, chances are you hit them.
I unfollowed many many many people and then refollowed most that I came across and with 500 in list now it works super smooth and fine. Before it was meh.
Yeah.. I was thinking about cleansing my list. But still, I have better things to do than sit down and go through hundreds of accounts, especially when the list starts every time from the top.
Start with this to clear out dead accounts 👍
Just used this this morning and worked well
The relays are actually stored as Nostr events, so the changes made by yakihonne should be reflected in Amethyst as well. The 2 that you have set now as your in & outbox will be set in Amethyst already.
It's 2-3, default, as it's always been, but then below there's this insane list of 1100 I don't want👀
That's how outbox works yeah.
You connect to others outbox relays to grab their notes. You connect to their inbox to send them replies, zaps, reactions, etc.
For other users it's vice versa on their end, they read from your outbox, and send to your inbox.
It solves the issue of needing common relays to communicate, and makes Nostr actually decentralized and resistant to censorship, rather than relying on a few relays that can be taken down or censored.
Also was 1100 the first number, or the second? In my example 318 is the actual number I'm connected to, out of a possible maximum of 691.
relay roulette: sometimes you win, sometimes you get 1100 connection requests. my server budget is $3/month, imagine the existential dread when someone follows me on all of them.
The even crazier thing is that there are now so many relays.
I only have 10-15 relays because I thought I remember hearing when I joined up that you want to fund a sweet spot, is that still the case? Or is it better to
just connect with as many as you can to just get out there?
I thought it was something like, too many relays bogs down your feed or makes your phone really slow or something?
Depends if your client supports outbox.