in case y'alls didn't realise it, the big money bros are leaving nostr and cancelling their relays
nostr stands on its own feet now, and that means that we have to have paid relays and we have to have protocols built to make discovery automatic.
none of this is frontier distributed systems tech. all are solved problems that never got solved for nostr because they deliberately kept things centralised, and paid devs to build for that architecture.
it is disappearing. nostr will become what it was born to be now.
or it will mutate into what it was born to be.
i'm here for it. i'll be building things from the steppe and my costs are low so if you want someone who knows this stuff inside and out, i'm available.
living in the middle of nowhere the only expensive thing is internet. food, rent, power, all relatively cheap. maybe i need solar panels. maybe i can find a place to set up where i have a hot spring and i can drill down and run off geothermal.
this is the future of nostr. welcome.
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well you remember that big relay that had all the stats, nostr.build wasn't it? that was gone about 5 months ago. will caeserin, dev of damus, has canceled his relay, because he's not being paid to run it anymore.
nostr needs to fund itself now. and i for one welcome this. it means that serving the nostriches becomes the task. not serving dorsey and friends. thiel, fink, etc.
So nature is healing in Nostr too? Iโm all for it!
yeah, we are out of the woods of the solar max. since 2020 the energy hitting the earth has been high. now it is back to quiet for another 5 years.
things will be cool for a while. weather will be less crazy. people will be less crazy. but it will probably get worse next time the sun is busy again.
No lol
Fiatjaf posts as much as he did before. Hes also still grinding hard on nostr things
Yerp. As fun as all that bootstrapping was, incentives became skwiff
it was never bootstrapping. it was trying to keep the lid on pandora's box.
Now things take a different form of interesting.
If anyone wants to run their own relay ask me about https://relayk.it
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I recommend everyone take a look at proscenium. The user experience is a little rough but it has good ideas about censorship resistance and serving content in a distributed fashion.

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GitHub - iohzrd/proscenium: Decentralized, censorship resistant social media and messaging.
Decentralized, censorship resistant social media and messaging. - iohzrd/proscenium
The free relays are all garbage anyways. Full of spammers and trash. They won't be missed.
ikr. a new dawn of nostr is upon us. we have remained autistic longer than they could remain solvent
I guess I could offer the Inkan relay.
I originally set it up for testing, but if anyone would like to just use it just in a regular way and is a very well-mannered person, please feel free to request access at
One neat feature is that the events you post automatically get OTS timestamps. You can retrieve these timestamps and keep them as proof of when you created your events.
It's free. What I get in return is a chance to practice running a relay, and to practice content moderation on you.

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well, you can always offer subscriptions. building a subscription access system is just adding to your existing access control system.
Yes, it should be easy to add on actually. I might just do it as an exercise and initially charge 0.00 and see if I can find any takers at that price.