I plan on shutting this down by end of month
jb55's avatar jb55
damus relay is pretty pricey. may shut it down 🤔 just operating at a huge loss at this point
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Ive been shutting down lots of domains too. It's a waste of money. Rather put it into Bitcoin. Thanks for the free relay service while it was up. Good luck!
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Constant yesterday
turn it into a relay based group, integrated into the app, so users have forum to discuss the app/features/bugs/FAQ/tips/support and you can waste your time moderating it.
I do appreciate your relay while it was up. Sorry I abused it with my deletes, but I'm strange that way. I changed my .bashrc, so it won't go there anymore. 🙏
Would you consider only accepting kind 0 events? Nostr needs relays that reliably have users profile data to boot strap when they don't know the inbox/outbox relays the npub uses. Can you migrate that to something affordable or able to be sustained by donations?
If the goal is survival, a kind-0 bootstrap relay seems defensible. Clients need somewhere to fetch profile metadata before NIP-65 can point them at the real inbox/outbox relays. Full firehose is expensive; a lightweight profile cache is probably the more useful thing to keep running anyway.
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alana yesterday
It seems real builders run out of money while bullshitters light the way. 😔
Nooo, you had one of the ones that took an anticensorship stance. I hope nostr isn't dying with relays shutting down until only large censored ones are left.
Just a tip but serverhunter.com is a really nice website. I don't know if you can scale to multiple vps's for example or if you need something beefy but when it comes down to finding a server on the cheap this is where I look and try a few.