Nostr Web Client

Depends on what you are using it for.

First, it can be a local backup of all of your notes. While we don't have much issue with this now, I imagine that large public relays will not store your notes forever, but you may want to have a full history for yourself.

You can also set up a relay as a way for a team to communicate internally, whitelisting only the npubs of the team members. Paired with a client like Flotilla, you have your own Slack/Discord community.

You can set up your own web-of-trust relay, allowing only those you follow plus those they follow to post to it. These types of relays generally have little to no spam, since spammers don't tend to get followed by anyone with a brain.

You could run a paid relay + Blossom server, which is always helpful to have more places for folks to host their media, and paid relays also tend to have little to no spam, since paying to spam gets expensive pretty fast.

You could also just run your relay for the sake of learning more about how Nostr works, with the added bonus that if you open it up to others to post to it, you are also helping keep the protocol decentralized.

I have not yet tried self hosting a client and relay together. May try this with Ditto sometime, or Coracle.

The Space Helmet 11mo ago

This is great information. Thank you.

Preservation of my own notes isn’t much a priority. Before asking my question I thought that a relay use case would be topic specific relays (politics as an example) where users would aggregate.

Further review suggests that running a relay is more beneficial to cultivate the protocol (I don’t have a use case for a discord). For sure I will be running a relay and testing how it works - maybe gather some users at the same time - who knows. This is all so interesting. I have hosted multiple social sites (sharkey, mastodon, IRC) and Nostra is easily the lowest barrier of entry.

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Laser

"#Palantir's CEO openly hates conservatives and has been building pre-crime infrastructure for the war on domestic terror, that will target left and right leaning dissidents alike."

-Whitney Webb via https://x.com/_whitneywebb/status/1876765041804128454?t=rk_ugc7RrbfixlokQ3mCQw&s=19

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The Space Helmet 11mo ago

The caution should absolutely be technocracy versus common folk. Technology has been too ingrained in the culture and these large corporations know it. Particularly, the advancement of AI coupled with the existing invasive technology in our lives creates a very scary picture. Facial recognition coupled with definitions of “wrongthink” makes me feel uneasy.

The Space Helmet 11mo ago

This is a really interesting platform. On one hand, the idea of a decentralized “town square” is a fantastic idea.

I’ve only used Damus (in this short period of use) and the experience is solid and straight forward.

I hope this idea expands and congratulations on a wonderful protocol.

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It's working! 👌

The Space Helmet 11mo ago

What do I do with it?

The Space Helmet 11mo ago

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#checkmyaddy

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