You wouldn't happen to own a data center there? 😉🫂🤙

Adding South Africa this week. 🫂🤙💜

https://relayable.org/strfry-relay-howto.html

We are working to switch over to our Hybrid Model of spam and bot filtering to allow open signups. Will maintain our transparency (no black boxes here) on how we do this. Using four layers of checks to allow free usage and avoid spam.

The Relayable Validation Model

1) Allow List

2) Spam Filter/Rate Limiting

3) Active Measures (more details to come)

4) Manual Review

We agree! 😉

🤙🫂💜

We have deployed our new website with more info and howtos on our relay network and how to build your own.

More to come!

https://relayable.org

We are currently testing a custom plugin to only allow bots write access to relayable that are user initiated. Since we only want to block auto-comment bots that post based on keywords, for example. We have currently blocked most bots from write access but will be reinstating some next week as we test.

#[0]

You know they are done when turn Bitcoin color. 😉🤙🥞

Relayable 💜 #zapathon

Careful out there! ⚡⚡⚡

We do agree that #onlyzaps keep the lights on. ⚡⚡⚡

#nostr #zapathon #relays

Looking for community input into the Terms of Service we're working on. Some people consider any bot account to be a "spam" account. We are looking for users' opinions on what defines a "spam" account. We did realize our current setup has our nostr account following npubs we have removed/blocked relays side due to behavior deemed as spamming. Moving forward, we plan to have a quarterly transparency report and a means of people appealing being blocked.

Any thoughts on this approach are appreciated. We want to include everyone in keeping Relayable/nostr a means of open access and free speech. So any ideas are welcome!

As always, if you wish to report an issue with an account, please DM us the pertinent details, and we'll follow up! You can DM us here or DM @jascha directly.

(thanks to #[0] for catching the issue with updating followers to match blocked accounts.)

Thanks! He has been blocked but on relays side. Realized we need script to update other direction of following.

We have not considered it at this point. Data storage is dirt cheap, so it would have to impact performance for us to have an issue.

If anyone knows of anyone potentially spamming with write access to our relay, please send us a DM of npub and we'll look into it.

Or send a DM to #[4]

Let us know who these "spammers" are. Feel free to send a DM.

Thanks for the mention. We're going for the gold! 🥇🤙

Relayable High Availability Network Design

We're documenting and sharing our relay network design to help other relay operators improve their uptime and redundancy. Our new site will have all this documentation and any howtos on deploying the various pieces of the network and relays. Relayable will be a non-profit to ensure profits do not drive our services. Instead, we will offer services to other relay operators to manage and scale their relays (RaaS?) and provide fully managed private relays for those needing them.

We are working on an invite and validation service to keep the relay users from being Spammers/Scammers. The validation system is a work in progress, so any devs looking to help a nostr project, please reach out to us!

Since we are not a paid relay, we depend on your donations to cover costs. https://donate.relayable.org

Tomorrow we will add another round of write access users to put us over the 1000 mark! 🤙🫂

#[2] added you to the write allow list. 🤙