If you run a relay or care about the uptime of one… View quoted note →

Happy New Years #nostr Really proud of the reliability across all of our nostr.wine products this year. Let’s run it back next year 🥂

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays friends. 🎅🎊

Good evening nostr. Climbing through 19k feet this evening on my way across the pond ✈️

🍷 Glad to hear you like it - sorry it took us so long! View quoted note →

Introducing Purgatory - our new spam evaluation engine for filter.nostr.wine. The newest addition to our nostr event data pipeline. Here is a flowchart that @Katie @Katie made to illustrate how it all works:

Free relays that allow and store unlimited spam will simply stop working long term. It is not an option to just ignore it and let the clients filter. View quoted note →

The problem: when a brand new pubkey starts sending events, it can be difficult to tell immediately whether they are a legitimate user or spam. Our solution: accept all new user notes temporarily in a separate database. As they send events, we continually evaluate their behavior based on several rules (and eventually by a trained model) and approve/block the pubkey. If approved, all of their old events get added to our aggregator relay and the user is immediately discoverable. Their future notes will also go directly to the relay. If blocked, the events are sent to a purged database (for transparency and evaluation) and never reach our relay. Still an early WIP but coming along! It doesn’t solve all the issues but it is a massive improvement on our current rules. View quoted note →