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I don't see any DM relays listed when I look at yours in Amethyst. Maybe you need to add one? In Damus, you should be able to add a DM relay, like auth.nostr1.com

This is a quick lil 5 min video that might help break it down for you! 🫂💜

my orly relay https://next.orly.dev/ is a good pick for a personal DM relay because you can assign your npub as admin, and it automatically whitelists all your follows, and additionally, there is a spider that you can enable which searches all your follows for relay lists and uses all of them. i forget how many subscriptions it opens, probably as many as relays can be found, and the events are instantly imported when they appear on other relays. plus, the most important thing, is that the relay doesn't send out your DMs to anyone who asks except if they auth and their pubkey appears in your DM's tags. idk how this works with giftwraps, since they only reference the recipient but anyhow... i will start to get cranky if i write any more about that subject.

It's the old DMs... will need something like the iOS 0xchat or Flotilla app to send/recieve nip17, too

yes, the scheme that "leaks metadata" (both sides of the conversation). but it actually is required to make nostr DMs work. giftwraps the sender can't decrypt them unless they cache the one shot keys for the messages, which is a pretty major problem. the NIP-44 encryption is not better. there is no AES-NI extension for chacha20-poly1305 (AES=rijndael cryptographically secure pseudo random number generator CSPRNG). yes, on CPU, it's faster, but not faster than AES. i am going to be adding a nip-17/nip-04 based instant messaging client to the relay interface, which you can see my PoC instance here: https://relay./ mleku.dev the UI is pretty minimal and clunky at this point, there *is* a search filter for events but it's clumsy. i want to fix all these things. the relay also has a blossom server so a UI for user management of their image uploads will be possible also, and is the next thing i want after i get the search nicer and the DM client in there. maybe by next week i'll have the DMs working, and then i'm gonna see what nostr:npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h thinks of it :) the relay protects your privacy using *authentication* instead of obfuscation like giftwraps (one shot encryption keys using ECDH with the recipient's pubkey).

Could not open it. Trying again later, thank you for the tips and goodwill ♡