Looking for real world usage feedback on the performance of https://nostr.af please let us know. We have latency based DNS for it like Relayable uses. Is in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Helsinki data centers. It is a customized Snort install. 🤙

What do you do when you have a global network of servers for nostr relays?! You add a Snort #nostr web client to each one and use the same latency based routing already in place for it! https://nostr.af If not logged into the client will see a realtime Global feed for Relayable. Once sign-in will be your usual relay list. Then you setup public Simplex SMP/XFTP servers. smp://8VHoUzYaX4q8gqVuN_0ahprw1-mrpd0Ouyff0RwpsWE=@smp.nostr.af xftp://yC6U2VvP9EtYkTdbtvENiqhHazG4yQ8lZ9qDS0JKwuE=@xftp.nostr.af Or scan with phone below! HINT you may need to cover the one not scanning with your hand. 💜 Next up: Relayable CDN! 😉 V4V⚡ Your usage and donations make this happen. 🫂

We fixed it! 💜🤣⚡

Relayable made #nostr happen! Along with everyone else. 🤣🤙💜🫂

Part 2 Adding Allow List Policies https://live.pleb.cloud/play/63

Not long after we added our new Montreal server was when a wave of spam that came upon #nostr relays. Since this node is one of our streaming nodes we recieved and filtered the other relays as well. Servers never got above 25% CPU utilization. #relayable #relay

مرحبًا بك في كل الأشخاص الجدد على nostr https://relayable.org

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!

UPDATE: We have temporarily taken down a few of our relays to upgrade and re-import databases. This does not impact availability but monitoring is paused. They will be added back once upgraded. We are also working on our end of the month report on usage and fundraising will be sharing soon. Thanks to everyone for your support!💜🫂

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 have finished our testing or new relay build and are moving forward with upgrading our other 6 geo relays. Working on a more detailed blog post but wanted to touch on the changes we have made. Thanks to everyone who has manually added the node for testing! (wss://ca.relayable.org) Spam and bot prevention we've been testing is a five pronged approach: 1) IP blocking for known spam IPs at the firewall/WAF level (have seen bots sending 2GB+ of data per day to relays) 2) Keyword blocks for explicitly spam post keywords ($hitcoins, airdrops, etc) 3) Antiduplicate filtering for automated repetative spam 4) Rate-limiting for posting (non-human achievable speeds) 5) Manual review (e.g. user reported spam/bots we review case by case) We are blocking some bots that do comment spamming. It is our belief that if you wish to interact with "AI" (e.g. LLMs) it should be user initiated. Not a bot commenting on your posts in an unsolicited manner. We've resumed streaming from other relays as well. For one of the largest we block on average 250 events every 5 minutes. If you feel we have blocked or not blocked something in error please DM us the info (npubs and/or note IDs) and we'll address it transparently.

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.

Friendly reminder... #relayable