RELAYS HAVE EVOLVED!

Nostr relays have evolved beyond their initial role as dumb pipes or simple databases. Today, the Nostr ecosystem is home to a variety of specialized relays, each offering unique functionalities.

What unique relays exist on Nostr? Here are a few:

wss://gm.swarmstr.com - A relay for GMs only
wss://catstrr.swarmstr.com - Cat pics and content about cats
wss://questions.swarmstr.com - A questions only relay
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wss://eyes.f7z.io - notes with the 👀 emoji only
wss://140.f7z.io - 140 character max notes, like Twitter's old policy
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wss://algo.utxo.one - a new type of algorithm based relay
This type of relay category is very new, but will grow over time.
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And then we have WoT relays or relays that operate with a Web-of-Trust, brining less spam to users in a more trusted and safer environment. Here are several WoT relays:

wss://wot.utxo.one
wss://nostrelites.org
wss://wot.nostr.party
wss://wot.sovbit.host
wss://wot.girino.org
wss://relay.lnau.net
wss://wot.siamstr.com
wss://relay.lexingtonbitcoin.org
wss://wot.azzamo.net
wss://wot.swarmstr.com
wss://zap.watch
wss://satsage.xyz
wss://wons.calva.dev
wss://wot.zacoos.com
wss://wot.shaving.kiwi
wss://wot.tealeaf.dev
wss://wot.nostr.net
wss://relay.goodmorningbitcoin.com

To fully leverage these relay advancements, we now need new sets tools that can make the most of these new features. It's time for relay management and relay explorers to take on a more prominent role within our clients. These tools can help users discover, explore, and even rate relays, encouraging greater decentralization of content on Nostr. This also opens up exciting new opportunities for how users find, engage with, and share information in new and unique ways.


Onward 🫡


Thank you for sharing these 🤘🏼


Help, I want out !!!! 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

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Relays are not dumb as some might say, but please nobody ever brand their relay as a “smart relay” 🤣


Ethereum has smart contracts you know! 😂

https://i.nostr.build/NxBsLJik1giUQLcm.jpg


Smart “_________” = run away


Zap! 🫡


Coming soon: smart.nostrelites.org for smart notes only 🥹


Always bringing people back. Nostr is a hell of a drug.


nice list, my new client is centered around relays/groups


Very cool. I can't wait to see it.


Great post 👍


What relay implementations make it easy to enforce minimum proof-of-work? I want to run one.


This is a great question and I don't have a good answer for to, but I do agree that this would make a nice relay style. Set a minimum PoW.


In my case, it’s for a website where users can post pseudonymously via a randomly generated Nostr keypair. Nostr isn’t the focus, just the means of communication. So my relay needs to filter by kind (easy) but I also need PoW enforcement to prevent spam.


Getwired.app does this. Would your app be similar to it?


:snort:


Thanks, but not quite. My work-in-progress site will allow users to compare two, randomly selected Magic the Gathering cards and pick one. I’m going to use a custom kind number, empty content, and the payload choice information will be tags.

Way back in the day, like 20 years ago, there were sites that let users pick among images like this. One was called thefairest<dot>info. The other I recall was thefunniest<dot>info.

Of course, by allowing anon visitors to post images, they didn’t last forever. I’m thinking can bring back the concept in limited form by using a curated image set and deterring spam with Proof-of-Work.


i have one, i can share the code later today (it's on my private git, not github)


It's time for relay management and relay explorers to take on a more prominent role within our clients.

So many relays doing different things. Very much like a restaurant menu, no one orders “one of everything”. You tailor your meal and I can’t wait for fully surfaced tools to tailor my information ingestion.


That sounds fantastic.


Interesting to se #Gm relay 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Do it have continuity having like 5 relays for one thing and 5 for another and then like that just again and again.

Are these paid ones or WoT ones more used bcs of less spam or just free relays wins?

Would like to know where I have biggest chance to that my note will be seen on other side of #Nostr or it will be just sitting in the background of #Nostr

Or do I just using nostrband in wrong way?
Thanks G’s 🧐


Onward 🫡


To access all of the unique content relays, you'd need to add them to profile or use a client like Coracle that allows feeds to be configured for a specific relay.

As for th WoT relays, the owner of the relays needs to follow you or one of their follows follows you. Then you can write to it. All are public and free to use.


LOL GM exclusive relays what an idea


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What unique content specific relays does he have? I can add them later.


For when you need more GMs to brighten your day.


https://relay.tools allows plebs to create their own relays and set content parameters.


What type of content parameters? Can you show me screenshots?


RELAYS HAVE EVOLVED!

Nostr relays have evolved beyond their initial role as dumb pipes or simple databases. Today, the Nostr ecosystem is home to a variety of specialized relays, each offering unique functionalities.

What unique relays exist on Nostr? Here are a few:

wss://gm.swarmstr.com - A relay for GMs only
wss://catstrr.swarmstr.com - Cat pics and content about cats
wss://questions.swarmstr.com - A questions only relay
by  nostr:npub178umpxtdflcm7a08nexvs4mu384kx0ngg9w8ltm5eut6q7lcp0vq05qrg4

wss://eyes.f7z.io - notes with the 👀 emoji only
wss://140.f7z.io - 140 character max notes, like Twitter's old policy
by  nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft

wss://algo.utxo.one - a new type of algorithm based relay
This type of relay category is very new, but will grow over time.
by  nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8

And then we have WoT relays or relays that operate with a Web-of-Trust, brining less spam to users in a more trusted and safer environment. Here are several WoT relays:

wss://wot.utxo.one
wss://nostrelites.org
wss://wot.nostr.party
wss://wot.sovbit.host
wss://wot.girino.org
wss://relay.lnau.net
wss://wot.siamstr.com
wss://relay.lexingtonbitcoin.org
wss://wot.azzamo.net
wss://wot.swarmstr.com
wss://zap.watch
wss://satsage.xyz
wss://wons.calva.dev
wss://wot.zacoos.com
wss://wot.shaving.kiwi
wss://wot.tealeaf.dev
wss://wot.nostr.net
wss://relay.goodmorningbitcoin.com

To fully leverage these relay advancements, we now need new sets tools that can make the most of these new features. It's time for relay management and relay explorers to take on a more prominent role within our clients. These tools can help users discover, explore, and even rate relays, encouraging greater decentralization of content on Nostr. This also opens up exciting new opportunities for how users find, engage with, and share information in new and unique ways.


Amethyst and Coracle do a great job exposing relays with better relay management tools than most clients, but we can do better.

Websites such as nostr.watch and nostrrr.com are great and informative, but they're not built into clients, so we can do better.

The more user tools that are available, the more users Nostr can support.
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I liked the dumb pipes


If you want to use a dumb pipe, there are thousands of others to choose from. Nostr's cool like that.


Very interesting


Generational Wealth. You are Welcome 🫡


Let's go 🚀


:Clap:


and here's me still not even knowing what a relay is


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Onward


Onward 🫡


⚡Zap⚡


So, mostly pointless and then the censorship regime?


I need a relay for Jeeps only 😊