Point me to a comprehensive tutorial that explains how an individual can run their own #nostr relay.
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I haven't done it, but the Umbrel Linyx distro looks promising. It boots to a webpage, no desktop environment.
Here's their video on the Umbrel Nostr app.
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Introducing the official Nostr Relay app
For those of you who use Nostr, you’re going to love this new official Nostr Relay app we built. Your Nostr activity can now be backed up in real...
I don't know of one, strfry was the most simple, I found. I also needed to a write filter for it though.
I wrote a small one in Go based on a library for the purpose:
I believe @jb55 has also written one, however can't find it now :(
GitHub
GitHub - braydonf/strfry-tools: A set of tools for strfry relays for the Nostr protocol.
A set of tools for strfry relays for the Nostr protocol. - braydonf/strfry-tools
I think you can just click a couple buttons and pay 12k sats a month with https://relay.tools. Haven’t tried it though.
1. Get old laptop
2. Install Umbrel
3. Install Nostr Relay app
4. Add relay to Nostr Client
Other option (public relay)
1. Get VPS
2. Install LNBits
3. Install Relay Extension
4. Configure Relay Extension
5. Add relay to Nostr client
relay.tools best way to the lazy web. it does work and its quite interesting based off of strfry
Couple clicks on start9 for personal relay
Strange timing. 👀
I have a node that I built with umbrel. I recently downloaded Nostr relay. Not sure what else to do. I’ll spend a bit more time looking at it.
Can I use the private relay I just created on @umbrel to back up notes on several different nostr accounts?
Yes, may need to approve each npub