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I like to use a mix of paid and free. It's easy to swap free ones out of a spam event happens or if your client allows you to configure global to be only paid relays.

Most users will be okay using the relays that s client gives you, because relay management is a new social feature that people have never had to do before. They'll need to add one or two that their friends use though.

With relays, I've found that less is more. Somewhere in the low teens seems to be best, with no more than 20. At least from my own experiences.

stack those sats ⚡️ 2y ago

Having a mix of paid in there does what? Don’t you need to be using paid only to not get spam?

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Derek Ross 2y ago

Paywalls are the best solution right now. And, most importantly, you get to pay for using a service that costs money to run. It's a great concept. I enjoy paying for services that I use 🤙

stack those sats ⚡️ 2y ago

Still don’t see if you’re paying one relay to filter spam but also allowing a free one, won’t spam make it into your feed?

Mazin 2y ago

2 options: some clients let you choose which relays show where. You could turn off public relays for global requests but use them to supplement everything else.

Another option is to look for public relays with spam protection. #[11] runs nostr.mom like this.

Lastly, if you do make the hop to paid relays, make sure you checkout nostr.wine and how we are bridging the gap with our filter relay. Read me here: https://filter.nostr.wine

armstrys 2y ago

This might help. My personal preference is a small number of popular public and paid relays, but before I had the ability to turn relays off just for global I was using paid relays only and nostr.wine filter/broadcasting to keep good coverage. #[11]

Derek Ross 2y ago

it could, if you don't have a client that allows you to filter that spam. some clients allow you to filter our your global feed based on relays.