Mood.
Look at that Nostr effect! Second wind of vertical growth. The nostr growth doesn't feel like it wants to slow down anytime soon either.
Thanks, I'll keep an eye on it to see if eden.nostr.land starts seeing my notes. It's been a while since it has worked for me.
Do you think using a single desktop client at a time rather than several simultaneously will help solve my rate limit problem?
I'll close extra clients on my desktop and see if that helps. How long for the rate limits to reset?
I'm getting 502 errors when I try to go to the eden and puravida invoice sites, so maybe I'm hitting some rate limits?
I have multiple clients open on my desktop, and have been doing several refreshes, so that may be my problem.
Any help from #[2] and #[3] is much appreciated.
Ah, interesting. I've had multiple clients open simultaneously. This combined with the page refreshes I've been doing may be hitting my rate limits?
Any ideas why my eden and puravida nostr land relays aren't working for me, #[0]?
Strange. I've already tried adding and removing wss://relay.orangepill.dev to my relay list several times, but Snort always shows it as red for me. And none of my notes are being seen on the relay.
I can't figure out why many of my paid relays are no longer working for me. Is it possible my payment status was reset or something? Has this happened to anyone else?
eden.nostr.land
puravida.nostr.land
relay.orangepill.dev
bitcoiner.social
Clicking on your link above I see a 502 Bad Gateway.
Upgraded https://relay.orangepill.dev and https://nostr.plebchain.org to Nostream version 1.22.5.
Apologies for the brief downtime caused by the 504 timeout errors. The new version fixes it.
I wonder why I can't connect to relay.orangepill.dev? Could my payment status have been lost?
If you are a nostr.wine member and you haven't checked out our filter relay yet, see our new readme here:
https://github.com/nostr-wine/filter-relay/blob/main/README.md
Trying the nostr wine filter relay with the broadcast option. We'll see if this helps.🤞 #[1]
The new NostrGram tool for showing which relays a note is seen at is very handy. I'm definitely having relay problems, but I'm not sure what to do about it.
I have 5 paid relays, and nostr wine is the only one working for me.
wss://nostr.wine
wss://nostr.milou.lol
wss://eden.nostr.land
wss://relay.orangepill.dev
wss://bitcoiner.social
wss://puravida.nostr.land
I downloaded my complete note history from NostrGram (another cool tool!), but I don't know how to rebroadcast it to make sure it is available across all of my paid relays, or to new paid relays that I will join in the future. This seems like a critical piece of owning your own data.
Any suggestions or tips for why these paid relays may not be working for me before I start reaching out to the relay operators?
Twitter threads on BOLT 12:
"BOLT 12 is a protocol layer solution to the invoice problem, while LNURL is an application layer solution.
This means BOLT 12 has better privacy, less centralization risk (DNS), and better UX for non-technical users.
What can we use BOLT 12 for?
1. Subscriptions.
2. Bitcoin Lightning ATMs
3. Private Refunds
Lightning took Nostr to the next level.
But BOLT 12 will take it even further.
BOLT 12 + NOSTR = THE EVERYTHING APP
If you didn’t already know, BOLT stands for Basis of Lightning Technology.
BOLTs are like BIPs for Lightning⚡️
BOLT 12 is already supported experimentally on
@blockstream
’s
@core_LN
and is also being actively implemented by the teams at
@acinq_co
,
@lightningdevkit
, &
@Lightning
BOLT 12 is distinct from BOLT 11 (the current invoicing spec on LN) in a bunch of different ways.
The main component of BOLT 12 is a new type of invoice called an “offer”.
An offer can be thought of as a ‘meta’ invoice- an invoice on top of an invoice.
Offers are useful because they are persistent and static.
This means that you can use them for donation pages, billboards, and zapping fellow plebs on Nostr!
BOLT 11 invoices, on the other hand, can only be used once, and must be generated in real-time.
BOLT 12 offers also allow you to create recurring subscriptions denominated in sats OR dollars.
This could be used to fund paid relays or creators (Patreon style), and for other subscription services.
BOLT 12 is Lightning native, which means that it’s different from LNURL/Static LN addresses because you aren’t required to run a web server to generate invoices.
Your Lightning node handles all the work.
This allows for fully self-custodial zapping⚡️”
https://twitter.com/LN_Capital/status/1627338727247814657?s=20
https://twitter.com/LN_Capital/status/1589321548133203968?s=20
Nostr improvements 🤝 lightning improvements
Is there a way to rebroadcast a note to make sure it gets seen on at least one of my paid relays?
NOSTRGRAM TECHIE UPDATE - NOTE RELAY LIST
For those like me who love the technical details, you can see the JSON structure of any note plus the list of relays it was seen at by clicking the ellipsis in the note actions list and then clicking Note Info.
However, if you want the list of relays to be shown beneath the notes in the feeds, there's a new option in Settings (⚙️) that's off by default: "Show relay list beneath note actions"
It's near the bottom of settings. Enable it and you'll see the list of relays beneath the notes (with paid relays prefixed by a 💲).
Try it out at https://nostrgram.co/
Already in NostrGram? Refresh the page to get the update.
Nice tool! I had no idea that my notes were being seen on so few relays. I wonder why my posts aren't being seen on my paid relays? Nostr wine seems to be my only paid relay that is working of the 5 that I have added. 
Unfortunately, the nature of social networks tends to create a kind of gravitational pull for people to engage most eagerly on accounts that have the most followers. If you engage smartly on a note posted by a popular account, rather than just post on your own account, your reach can be hugely magnified. Same goes for posting a thoughtful response to an account with low followers - instead you save your valuable reply for a similar note posted by a popular account.
But what if there were some way to incentivize a decentralizing engagement pattern to counter this naturally centralizing one? What if people were somehow rewarded for engaging with under-discovered small accounts that have the potential to become popular accounts?
Possible solutions?
Maybe the simple social dynamics of having more quality interactions with small accounts is the only solution that's possible or necessary here. But maybe there are creative incentives that can be designed in at the client or protocol level.
For example. What if notes were "collected" by the highest zapper. This would incentivize you to go out and find cool notes from under-discovered accounts and scoop up cool collectibles at bargain prices.