The two relays I operated have gone kablooie from the internet. I had been contemplating shutting them down because the vast majority of the traffic seems to be scrapers, and I can't afford to run a VPS to serve useless noise. In the process of moving the data to another, smaller VPS, I accidentally deleted the files, and there's no backup. So much for that plan! I don't think I'll run another relay. Altruism isn't appreciated -- people just want a place to spam and/or hoover up all the data. Unfortunately, the scrapers continue to hammer the server, trying to connect. They seem not smart enough to give up on a relay that isn't responding. I hope they eventually do.

I wonder if #[0] left nostr because he realized it's trivial for the NSA to hoover up the whole firehose of traffic and probably geolocate anybody they wanted to.

New Rule: Every creature deserves the right to a restful night's sleep, uninterrupted by the lights, noises, and radiation from industrial civilization.

Returning after several weeks, every nostr client seems broken – feeds aren't loading or clients aren't displaying anything. Ah well. I'm going for a walk.