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 Do you run your own personal relay and connect to it?

Like/zap1sat for “yes,” repost for “... 
 Any good guides / websites on getting started with running a relay? 
 Should the government stop dumping money into a giant hole?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ 
 Dang, this place is awesome. A few thoughts

- Nostr is a bit harder to access for most people, so the people who are here are more invested
- Extremely welcoming and helpful community
- Feels more like texting normal nice people than the toxic wasteland of most social medias

If I can find all the information that I use Twitter/X for here, I don’t see why I’d go back

Only downside is that a lot of people only post on X. Would be cool if there was a way to follow a “mirrored” account on Nostr that just posts copies of their X posts 
 Can someone explain to a noob why everyone is obsessed with bitaxe? #mining

I’m interested in running a cheap lottery miner 
 Sounds awesome. Know of a good link to learn more? 
 #introductions

Midway into my freedom defending journey. 

- Bitcoin, coin joined, hardware wallet
- Purchasing a gun 
- Getting set up on nostr

What’s next? 
 lol that’s actually on the to do list

Lots of peanut butter coming up 
 Yo lots of cool resources in your profile. Thanks for sharing, much appreciated 
 Help by Following nebies in #introductions so they are not lost by everyone switching to wot rela... 
 What are wot relays? 
 GM 🌧️
16:8 starting over, day 1
Russian caravan black tea 
 Currently running a month long OMAD experience myself

Intermittent fasting is great 
 For sure doable, the first few days were rough though, midafternoon headaches / crashes

I think 16:8 is where I’ll try to settle once the month is over 
 Trying to figure out how many #HamRadio ppl we have here, reply below. 
 New obsessive personal project idea just dropped 
 Someone should figure who is behind these bots 😁 
 What is Nostr’s defense against bots? Obviously limited at the moment but isn’t that a protocol level issue potentially? 
 Ok this makes a lot of sense, thanks for sharing 
 I have been on X for 13 minutes this week, and Nostr for 6.5 hrs, and I feel at peace honestly.

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 I'm just starting out here but I can say that I'm increasingly convinced the algorithms are almost as much of a problem as censorship. If not more. The objective function for algos seems to be clicks and attn rather than knowledge. Huge issue.