jasonc741 -- 623d Oh and one more thing about privacy. Every relay you access can see your ip address, just like any other website. use a vpn or other method to obscure your ip/location is generally good practice. replyOh and one more thing about privacy. Every relay you access can see your ip address, just like any other website. use a vpn or other method to obscure your ip/location is generally good practice.
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Given what is happening with censorship in the #uk with #socialmedia I thought I would give this a go. I am notreally finding the right people yet - is there a way (apart from hashtags) to find people in the uk or withother interest groups?Thanks !#asknostr
You might try to add some local relays https://nostr.watch/relays/find
Total newbie here. Dont really understand how the relays work. I can see I can add new relays, but what doesthat do?
Nostr clients like Damus, primal, coracle, etc don’t rely on a single server like other apps. Thats part of whatmakes the nostr protocol different from other social media. The othe significant difference is that your NPUB isyour public identity and it remains anonymous until you dox yourself. You can use your identity NPUB/XPUB acrossmultiple clients. Never share your XPUB and never enter your XPUB into an sus app or client.Any nostr user can host a relay and any client or app can access multiple relays. some relays are private/paidothers are public/free. Most relays only return content by users that share directly to the relay so in somecases a relay might host for specific topics or locations.Going a layer deeper, nostr uses “Event Types” to signal the type of content that is being shared. So againclient applications and relays can specialize in different content or work with multiple content Event types.
Oh and one more thing about privacy. Every relay you access can see your ip address, just like any otherwebsite. use a vpn or other method to obscure your ip/location is generally good practice.
You might try to add some local relays https://nostr.watch/relays/find
68ba8c60ccb7 -- 624d [parent] | reply [1 reply]Total newbie here. Dont really understand how the relays work. I can see I can add new relays, but what does that do?
jasonc741 -- 624d [parent] | reply [1 reply]Nostr clients like Damus, primal, coracle, etc don’t rely on a single server like other apps. Thats part of what makes the nostr protocol different from other social media. The othe significant difference is that your NPUB is your public identity and it remains anonymous until you dox yourself. You can use your identity NPUB/XPUB across multiple clients. Never share your XPUB and never enter your XPUB into an sus app or client. Any nostr user can host a relay and any client or app can access multiple relays. some relays are private/paid others are public/free. Most relays only return content by users that share directly to the relay so in some cases a relay might host for specific topics or locations. Going a layer deeper, nostr uses “Event Types” to signal the type of content that is being shared. So again client applications and relays can specialize in different content or work with multiple content Event types.