I switched wss://bhagos.org/ to LMDB It's a small VPS, located in Finland. Anyone who is a friend-of-a-friend of me (and several others) can post there. About 9,000 pubkeys are whitelisted...

"Mankind will not be free until the last general is strangled with the entrails of the last systems-analyst. As my sainted grandmother used to say." – Edward Abbey

Latest version of #python nostr-relay switches to using "internal events" for keeping track of NIP-05 verification, which simplifies the database a little. Also, I added a "recipe" for configuring a private relay that can accept replies to you. It'll also forward your events to other relays. More details on the wiki page:

nostr relay: Homeserver

I might add other recipes in the future. Let me know if you've got ideas!

Does anybody remember FIDOnet? My first email address was provided by a local bulletin board that happened to be connected to FIDOnet and provided a gateway to the outside SMTP world. I would sometimes chat with the BBS sysop when we were both online. When I told him I was using a hand-me-down 8088, he offered to give me a spare 386sx he had – a huge upgrade for me. He drove to my house to deliver the computer, since I was too young to drive, and my mother was very skeptical about me receiving gifts from some pre-internet stranger. But there were no strings attached. It was just an act of generosity from a benevolent sysop to a curious kid. These days, I think that spirit of generosity is mostly lost. Many people try to monetize every interaction. They build brands around themselves, in order to monetize some fictional identity. But I haven't forgotten FIDOnet and its beneficent sysops. I hope to be as generous as the people who have benefited me.

Test post from gossip, after my computer heated my house compiling the app. :)

aionostr: a new async #python library and command line interface for interacting with #nostr relays.

Client Challenge

#python nostr-relay 1.4 uses sqlalchemy and supports postgresql! Overall, performance and memory usage seems much better. This architecture should allow for more future flexibility.

PyPI

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nostr-relay 1.2.5 is about 10x faster, after switching from JOINs to subselects. #python