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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xtr OP 25 Mar \ parent \ on: Complete Guide: Setting up a Strfry Nostr Relay as a TOR Hidden Service nostr
Also, I'd appreciate feedback if you feel something needs to be updated/added to the guide.
I just wrote up a guide on how to set up a Strfry relay and make it accessible over TOR. It's probably not perfect so I'd appreciate feedback if there is anything that should be added or changed.
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It is, especially if you're on a metered connection with limited bandwidth. As @k00b mentioned in his comment, with the bigger relays you're probably going to download a lot of duplicates. I'd say something between 3 and 10 should be the good.
I will always recommend setting up your own relay, just because that gives you ownership of your social data just like running a bitcoin node gives you the ability to transact bitcoin whenever you want.
I would also recommend to pay for a couple of relays. Not because they're neccessarily better than a free relay but because paid relays has a higher chance of being sustainable than a free relay (without funding). Ironically, I've been running a free relay since mid-april 2022.
Some paid relays also offer extra stuff such as client-specific paid features (e.g. on https://snort.social), LN addresses, NIP-05 hosted verification, email services, backup services, better spam filtering, etc, so you should see if some offer something better than the other.
I'd also add a couple of free relays. If they cause a lot of spam in your feed (they don't for me), maybe change to a different relay.
If you're going to selfhost a relay, there are many ways to do that depending on your skill level. If you have an umbrel at home, you can set up a relay there. If you have an instance of lnbits running somewhere, you could install a relay there.
If you want to set stuff up yourself, I'd recommend strfry or nostr-rs-relay. Both has some documentation on how to get it set up but you need to know your way around a terminal and web server setup. Another popular relay software is nostream.
And if you selfhost a relay, you'd probably want to limit who can write to it to either just you or a close set of friends or anons you trust to ensure that it's not filled with spam by bad actors. All the relay softwares I listed above has some functionality for filtering events, usually through a separate plugin.
How much time does it take to run a relay? Once it's set up, the maintenance part is just to keep software up to date (which honestly doesn't need to be that often), at least if the relay is just for you or a small group of npubs. If you open the relay to the rest of the world, there might be a bit more maintenance w.r.t fighting spam, ensuring proper performance, disk space, etc.
TL;DR: Run your own relay if you can. If not, find some relays you trust to keep your data and do occational backups of your notes in case all your relays go down.
I'm working on improvements to my Strfry writepolicy plugin called "Chief". It has three filters that lets you whitelist/blacklist public keys, kinds and content.
This week I've refactored a good portion of the code to let you choose between a JSON file and a postgresql database for storing the stuff you want to whitelist/blacklist. I've also added suppport for individually activating/deactivating each filter type (public key, kind, content).
Next, I want to add support for statistics to get a better overview of how busy the relay really is. If anyone has any good tips for this I'd appreciate it!
Link to the repo: https://github.com/0xtrr/chief
Accept BTC only with BTCPayServer and give your customers a guide on how to acquire some sats if they don't have any (I'd expect anyone that wants to buy a miner to know how to acquire sats though)
Same, I was tempted to move to a new vanity key back when that became popular but never ended up doing it..
I should probably have checked more clients, lol. Seems to work fine on Snort as you said so probably a nostrudel bug then.