The new #Amethyst makes some big changes to how the relay configuration works. There are some new sections, and a few small changes can make things run more smoothly.
🔹Inbox & Outbox relays
Make sure you have 3 relays each for your inbox & outbox. Pick relays you trust.
Your outbox relays must accept notes from you, other people will find your notes here.
Your inbox relays must accept notes from others, they will send you replies, reactions, etc. here.
They can be the same relays in each list.
🔹The Indexer, Search & DM Inbox relays have default settings. I used these, resetting them to default.
🔹Broadcast relays will send your notes to multiple relays. This makes it more likely others will see them if they do not use the outbox model. Options include
wss://sendit.nosflare.com
wss://nostr.land (for subscribers)
🔹Using proxy relays can minimize the number of relay connections.
Good choices include:
wss://filter.nostr.wine
wss://aggr.nostr.land
wot-relay by @utxo the webmaster 🧑💻
For best results you want to run one yourself, for your npub.
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🔹I added to my Trusted relays.
- inbox & outbox relays
- Proxy & Broadcast relays.
- a few other selected relays I trust that had a large number of users and traffic.
These will connect over clearnet, rather than tor, making them faster. The downside is these relays will see your IP address.
🔹Under the privacy settings I have it set to default, which will make any non trusted relays use Tor. Adjust this to your level of paranoia, YMMV, reader beware. Tor is slow, so the more you enable, the slower your experience may be. You are using a VPN already, right?
