I went through all of the top 30 relays this morning.  I had not fully realized how dependent we are on damus.  A huge thank you to will for creating this service.  Much of the rest of the network is in a  bad state of disrepair.  Try it yourself to see.  Also help nostr by running a relay, because, without the relay network, there would be no nostr.

https://m.primal.net/KCHW.png


This graph is a bit misleading for this point, because if some relay it mentioned in someone's relay list it doesn't mean that relay is important. I.e. current.fyi relay is dead but still around top 5 here just by inertia.

Also how did you evaluate relays? By how much events they cover?


why is damus first and second before last as well?


Because of trailing slash, need to clean those up I guess


Thanks for the additional info.  I just started looking for a few relays to send events to, and expected it to be a quick task.  It was harder than I expected.  I've now widened the net.  Thanks for these stats, they're a great starting point.  I think we need more.  Also nostr watch is a great resource.


Yeah, in theory canonical SHOULD be with a trailing slash, because it's an http upgrade, so based on any HTTP location.  But of course people are going to leave out the slash often.  I think we need a tech spec that says trailing slash is the canonical location, but it software should handle both with and without trailing slash.


We’re number 22, we’re number 22! 😄


Isn't the entire point of Nostr that it's irrelevant how many relays there are at any given point, or if a large one gets compromised or goes offline? This sounds overly dramatic to me, since hardly anyone is directly "dependent" on the Damus relay (except for maybe Damus users; no idea what the app defaults are for relays).


Twitter is an implementation of nostr when its irrelevant how many relays there are


Since when do you sign tweets with your private key and send them to multiple servers run by different people?


Damus is huge because of spam and bots. There's not much more real content there than on a relay like relay.nostr.bg.


what kind of hardware we need for a relay?


They're also hard-coded into Coracle.


And Damus, of course.


Top relays … https://media.tenor.com/F9CDMvpAcVkAAAAC/nerd-alert-bumper.gif


Part I all see
But always go deeper
Cause various paths https://media.tenor.com/5sB2eDHvDQAAAAAC/eren-paths.gif


Since the number of relay operators became equal 1 and the operator decided it doesn’t make sense to do so