GM, Plebs! ☕️ 3 Sunday morning tips for Relays.
How-to substantially reduce your number of relays AND stay well-connected.
1.) wss://nostr.wine and wss://filter.nostr.wine
Get this relay! It’s paid, but worth the Sats (today: 18.8k). Using this relay enables you to use the filter service wss://filter.nostr.wine
The filter works both for requesting events from, and sending events to many other big public relays. Default is reading-only. To enable sending simply add the relay with the following syntax:
wss://filter.nostr.wine/REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_NPUB?broadcast=true
Featured reading relays:
wss://relay.damus.io
wss://nos.lol
wss://relay.current.fyi
wss://brb.io
wss://nostr.oxtr.dev
wss://relay.nostr.bg
wss://no.str.cr
wss://nostr.mom
wss://nostr.zebedee.cloud
wss://relay.plebstr.com
wss://offchain.pub
Featured sending relays:
wss://relay.damus.io
wss://nos.lol
wss://relay.snort.social
wss://nostr.oxtr.dev
wss://relay.nostr.bg
wss://nostr.fmt.wiz.biz
wss://nostr.mom
wss://nostr.zebedee.cloud
wss://no.str.cr
wss://relay.plebstr.com
wss://offchain.pub
(Both lists may be subject to change)
2.) wss://relay.nostr.band
This relay reads events from all relays and applies a spam filter. In case of writing you’ll only send to relay.nostr.band. However, it is a good addition to relay 1.) as it only requests events from your contacts and their contacts.
3.) wss://nostr.mutinywallet.com
This relay uses blastr which is a nostr cloudfare worker proxy that publishes to all known relays. Basically it reads the list of online relays from nostr.watch and all events are queued to be executed in batches. It’s in writing-only mode.
We haven’t fully tested the last one yet, but since it might fit for some use cases, it was added to the list.
Hopefully this will save you some bandwidth and battery. 👍
Stay humble, stack Sats.
