Nostr begs you to self-host infrastructure even more so than Mastodon does. my devices get very warm from running Nostr clients, so that's going to eat up your battery pretty quickly, and it's probably not great for your phone data bill either. if i could just offload all the heavy lifting (talking to relays, caching data) to an application server that i can put on one of my Linux machines and connect to it with a lightweight client, that would be nice.
such a proxy could also do stuff like cache images so they always load fast.
a more advanced version of nostr-proxy would work more like an IRC bouncer where it basically acts like a full client and caches data that it can quickly deliver to you when you connect to it.
nope, i don't think nostr-proxy is working properly for me. something is broken. says it's connected but i'm not seeing all traffic when i use it. going back to regular list of relays for now.
ahh, iris.to talks to a built-in list of proxies to figure out what proxies you're using, lol
trying out nostr-proxy right now
#[0] my NPM seems too new for nostr-proxy. complaining about "link:" being an invalid URL and Google tells me it's been replaced with "file:" in newer NPM versions.
found you! saw your project on awesome-nostr and i've been thinking about setting it up for myself, but i'm not sure how reliable it is. and does it broadcast what you post to all connected relays, or is it a read-only thing? is it reliable?
is anybody using this relay proxy, and is it reliable or is it buggy?
i remember when i tried to sound cool, but it's so much easier to just talk plainly. this probably makes me a boring adult.
would DNS still lack the ability to push updates downstream if we had designed it from scratch today? if an industry committee sat down to redesign it today, i think they'd make a few changes. with that said, DNS is a very versatile protocol.
if you're curious why i own a domain name tigerville.no, it's for the media stuff i make, so it's an unofficial label - Tigerville Entertainment. the name is from the Norwegian nickname of the city of Oslo - Tigerstaden - the tiger city - it's an old name and was originally used in a negative sense (tigers are ferocious) but nowadays it's more like "eyyy it's tiger town!"
there, now i should be appearing as thor@tigerville.no. not quite working locally yet because i accidentally performed a DNS query from my ISP before setting the correct A record, but i can see that it works on 5G from my phone.
setting up NIP-05 on my own domain right now.
oh man, iris.to is pretty storage hungry indeed
the spammers must've had the idea of setting up a relay that pretends to be a paid relay.
every modern web app ever: *starts inexplicably running a little slow after a while*
how about sticking a Bayesian classifier in there for spam filtering instead of using the social connections thing, or maybe as an alternative
as in local storage? it's using that for mapping out the social connections for the spam filter, right?
i was wanting to at least pay for access to nostr.wine since it seems to be the top paid relay. i've seen one client in the wild that spam filters the global timeline by ignoring all unpaid relays, which is effective, even if it does throw the baby out with the bathwater.