I can deploy my own relay anywhere in under a minute. It’s strange to limit yourself to expensive hardware that’ll be confiscated the moment there’s a raid. Relays are people, not machines. We just rely on each other — that’s it.
“Self hosting” a relay on a $5 box from LNVPS or Hetzner or some other provider is NOT SELF HOSTING!
All you did was put some software on someone else’s server, and they control the servers.
Your hosting provider can still censor you, see your IP, tamper with your data on your relay and more.
Either run on your own hardware with Umbrel or similar (or like nostr:npub1qdjn8j4gwgmkj3k5un775nq6q3q7mguv5tvajstmkdsqdja2havq03fqm7) or save yourself the hassle and use https://nostr.land.
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