You can view today's love stream here https://live.pleb.cloud/play/23

Welcome to the nostr relay community! Created for relay operators and those wanting to learn more about relays.

We are very happy with our relays performance in the recent #grownostr additions. Like other platforms we are always battling spam and bad bots. Will be updating our site with the relays we stream from. All are run through our filters for blatent spam or unsolicited comment bots. You still need to fine tune your preferences in your client of choice. Current relays we stream with: ``` relay.damus.io purplepag.es relay.snort.social nostr.wine nos.lol nostr21.com relay.wellorder.net nostr.mom ``` More to come in our site updates to coincide with the new relay builds. Please DM us any other relay suggestions or if a relay operator, feel free to stream up/down to our relays.

We have added some more shitcoin spam bots to the filtering and active measures. #nostr #grownostr Feel free to submit any note IDs or npubs to us via DM. Our honeypot accounts might miss some examples in the wild.

>> June 2023 Report << Hosting costs: $905.03 USD Sats donated: 1,773,202 ($532.05 USD) Total unique relay users across all six geo relays: 110,151 This is a 33% increase over May! 💪 In June we had a Canadian server donated with 3 more being donated for July! This will help us reach a break-even point sooner. We applied for grants early May but never heard back so pursing more sponsors to donate servers. We plan to be off AWS by August! 🎉 Our updated relays now block common shitcoin and comment spam. You may still need to mute/report in client but this should alleviate the brunt of it. Please DM us with any examples. Thanks for the 🫂💜🤙PV!

Good discussion with @rabble, Christine Lemmer-Webber (ActivityPub), and Golda Velez (BlueSky) on Open Social Media. byMEDLab @ CU Boulder We are linking directly to Rabble's section but the whole session is worth watching! 🤙

UPDATE: We've deployed our first updated relay with improved spam prevention and syncing to our other relays in the network. This server also represents our first steps in making our network even more resilient and heterogeneous by using a new colocation server in Montreal, Canada, donated by @plebcloud. We have firewall IP rules for known spammers and antiduplication, rate-limiting, and banned lists (known spam like airdrops and bot comments). The server is not added to our geo latency DNS, but you can add using wss://ca.relayable.org. It synced with our other relays and will still have the same content. Please provide any feedback to us via DM.

UPDATE: We have stopped streaming from relays that were hit by the recent spam attacks. Tomorrow we are deploying our upgraded relays which apply our policies to relays we stream from. Once deployed we will reenable our streaming from other relays. We also have the offending IPs of who was doing the spam attack. More on that to come. 💜🤙

Happy Father's Day! #dadchain Good Dads are like good Relays. Reliable.

In case anyone wants to celebrate 1,000,000 Zaps with us. 💜⚡ lnbc10m1pjgkt3fpp53p9u6nevvaz8806xdjs0z3tllhtd6998dz9kxt0pt5nfjj6xg4ksdqu2askcmr9wssx7e3q2dshgmmndp5scqzzsxqyz5vqsp5dm7kv8q2xh6qlynnenv8tne549g8d5y99eseua0eeumv3xkz0q9s9qyyssqczgevmy05dzv5537w6a6mr27wdnmyq3qqd4urcvcjt43ksuct92zqjphf5sz8usunyrf60yzqxfzp0z5pc022msqn0nykf4dtzezvzqqdzhww4

We have just doubled our capacity for our US relays. Keep hearing rumors of #nostr being dead but from the hockey stick growth seeing might be only seen on Apple News. 🤣

Welcome all the new #nostr users!!! #grownostr #welcomenostr #plebchain #introductions #relay #welcome #nostrhelp

Please do not pay this invoice. We are a nonprofit and have no legsl team to defend us. lnbc55550n1pjgjhtypp5hzac0qqcvws0gewh8w5m8rs03f03w0xfvqwd7mc99xzc5z2fg0vsdqu2askcmr9wssx7e3q2dshgmmndp5scqzzsxqyz5vqsp5jcdgad68tfpk2f4j7zk5tphs3dur0lecqdwm40shn8haen5k70ts9qyyssqt682x4suprt32nzwysxf2lulqy09c6kzqpljemdzadz9gf24lkupnnmy2n4jmsjpw756zwxs7gdekwz6uey8qjnncjmjeujkhazftwgp29vk3l

BREAKING: We just got ahold of our "Apple File" which we think is very similar to how #Damus @jb55 is viewed by Apple. More revelations to come! 😉🤙💜🫂