If my relays banned someone wrongly, I am not aware. I haven't been checking my spam checker for a long time. I am mostly monitoring the relay functioning, not doing much regarding the spam filter. The lol relay executable is running since Oct 12th, without any problems! So is my spam checker script. I played with e.nos.lol a bit. And it is running for a long time too.

There has been some worries about big relays going rogue and start banning people at the same time. I don't think it will happen soon. I don't talk to other guys. I don't know if other relay ops are talking to each other or not. Strfry channel is quite silent nowadays. I am not aware of such relay gossiping to ban users at the same time.

There is always opportunity to move to other relays if a relay starts acting weird. Thats the beauty of Nostr.

It's an honor to carry Nostr notes. If more people uses me, I am more honored. If less people uses the relays it is less work for me. I am quite grateful in every case.

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This is a relay implementation I plan to release shortly. It will be the most flexible relay to operate and write plugins for. It will be perfect for small relays of several hundreds of people for local communities, friends, and small businesses.

Pay-To-Join, Pay-To-Post, per-kind-access-control, read/write separation, all sorts of features that a relay admin wants will be implemented.

You can deploy it to your own server, or use serverless platform such as Deno Deploy to no-code deploy.

Make Small Relay Great Again! #MSRGA

Stay Tuned

I dont check Nostr DMs much, actively avoid it.

Don't want one more DM app until there is forward privacy.

OMEMO 👀

Mark Zuckerberg blocked gleasonator.com before federating his profile. I will have to fetch from a different domain.

Coracle lists relays and shows how many people you follow are on each. It also drops the top few to encourage network decentralization.

THERE IS JUST NOW

We’re also considering disabling straight repost in nos and instead encourage people to make quote posts. The idea is the latter adds a lot more to the conversation.

Today I discussed with the founder of Wikipedia my nostr implementation, wikifreedia.

We had a nice long chat about it.

At the end I asked whether I should import all Wikipedia articles.

“It will bias the type of information that is available in it and the tone”

I don’t think a wikifreedia-like system needs to be data-complete. I think it’s fine if it has only fresh, selected/curated entries that embrace their bias.

Everything but what you have control over is a distraction.

How do you enforce 21 million if you aren't sovereign? The vast majority won't be able to afford to take custody eventually.

It's the same way there is a limited amount of gold, but if majority holds IOUs that limit is moot as banks can print as much as they want

Bitcoin without sovereignty IS fiat

Nothing is special about Bitcoin without that

Exclusive Nostr announcement teaser: we're planning to organize what's probably the first Ecash conference ever. This year.

What do you adopt then, if sovereignty and privacy don’t matter? Government-controlled digital gold?