The two relays I operated have gone kablooie from the internet.
I had been contemplating shutting them down because the vast majority of the traffic seems to be scrapers, and I can't afford to run a VPS to serve useless noise.
In the process of moving the data to another, smaller VPS, I accidentally deleted the files, and there's no backup. So much for that plan!
I don't think I'll run another relay. Altruism isn't appreciated -- people just want a place to spam and/or hoover up all the data.
Unfortunately, the scrapers continue to hammer the server, trying to connect. They seem not smart enough to give up on a relay that isn't responding. I hope they eventually do.
My idea is that cities are unsustainable, open air prisons, and anybody with sense should escape before it's too late.
Ok, yes. aionostr can do that. It should automatically reconnect to relays.
Let me know if you need help.
Use nostr-bot instead ;) https://github.com/davestgermain/nostr_bot
Even if you use a pseudonym, a determined agency can find out who and where you are.
I don't think so.
He disappeared from twitter, too. Maybe they got to him. :(
I wonder if #[0] left nostr because he realized it's trivial for the NSA to hoover up the whole firehose of traffic and probably geolocate anybody they wanted to.
New Rule:
Every creature deserves the right to a restful night's sleep, uninterrupted by the lights, noises, and radiation from industrial civilization.
Returning after several weeks, every nostr client seems broken – feeds aren't loading or clients aren't displaying anything.
Ah well. I'm going for a walk.
If I hadn't left the US long ago I would definitely be packing my bags and leaving now. I'm amazed anybody stays under such corruption as every good institution crumbles into an authoritarian double-speak mockery of all that is good. Also I think the BRICS will eventually overthrow the US. Don't take solace that the US spends 10x on military as anybody else -- they don't get their money's worth: https://archive.org/details/pentagoncatalogo0000cerf Even the allies of the USA secretly resent it's control over them and will likely shift away from her when she starts to sink. The USA was founded on the right principles of freedom and liberty and human rights with Montesque's checks and balances, but it has operationally lost every single one of these to corruption. The Justice System is political. The FBI is political. The CIA was always political. The CDC is political. They all serve those in power who year by year hide less of their corruption and apparently don't care that you see it anymore because their stranglehold is so tight. Even in the best of times the military never defended the people, it's job is to defend the government, the government of scum. The deceivers have even deceived themselves into believing there is good where none remains, so they can lie more effectively. You don't deserve to fall down with her.
Your best chance if you stay is with Texas which may secede and rebuff the rest, or else go to war with the rest.
I'm not a religious man, but some of you are. "Come out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the fierce anger of the LORD."
[I was going to make political posts from a different account but it's too much trouble. Just ignore content you don't like.]
How does one leave? Other countries only want rich immigrants.
Unfortunately, there seems to be little resistance to it in the US. I think the past several years of psyops have neutralized much of the population.
I like the web of trust model, but how does it accommodate new users?
I’m not sold on POW because if it can be automated, the spammers will eventually implement it.
My relays already throttle unauthenticated clients, and double the throttling each time an unauthed client tries to save an event. This mitigates some spam, since the spammers haven’t figured out authentication, yet.
Spammers demonstrate that they’re willing to waste resources — they will keep retrying infinitely, even if the event is rejected each time. Automated IP blocking might be the best tool.
Embedding the note didn’t work as I expected. *sigh*
I also think it’s important for public relays to exist, for people who can’t or don’t want to pay, or for new accounts with no social network.
I would prefer to implement features that mitigate automated spam, while remaining open to human users. Adaptive throttling is already implemented. What other ideas are effective?
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The next feature I’ll add to #python nostr-relay will be “dynamic allow lists”, so that relay operators can specify nostr queries, and every “p” tag in the returned events will be allowed to post to the relay.
This is a generalization of the “friend of a friend” feature. It would allow for many other policies, based on whether a user has paid, or some other rule I can’t imagine.
https://code.pobblelabs.org/fossil/nostr_relay/doc/tip/docs/foaf.md
The TwitterFiles have revealed a vast censorship industrial complex, involving collusion between governments, corporations, academia, media, and NGOs.
Institutions are waging information warfare against their own citizens.
People are earning high salaries as censors or “internet hall monitors”, and they all seem to think they’re doing something important and good.
It’s the banality of evil.
python nostr-relay supports NIP-26...
If I understand the SimpleX protocol, this program translates the concept to nostr. The sender creates a new conversation key and directs recipients to a relay of their choosing.
https://gist.github.com/davestgermain/12974fef590fc1edf12e9a25b9dfa7b5#file-safe_dm-py-L82