Derek Ross on Nostr: This relay seems useful, but only for people that utilize clients that take advantage ...

This relay seems useful, but only for people that utilize clients that take advantage of them. If your client doesn't allow you to generate feeds from a specific relay, then using this type relay won't be overly useful. Even if you removed all relays except this relay, to essentially only have a feed from this relay only, then you'd be hurting your decentralization and censorship resistance efforts. Being able to choose your own algorithm by creating a brand new feed is just another piece of the user choice puzzle and we'll hopefully see more clients adopt this path moving forward.

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Introducing: AlgoRelay

Build your own nostr algorithm!


AlgoRelay is the first nostr native relay capable of serving personalized, algorithmic feeds without the use of external or proprietary APIs or DVMs.

It prioritizes surfacing content from the people you care about, based on your personal interactions.

For new users, it solves the "who should I follow?" problem by surfacing popular content in a global feed with our best content.

Clients can easily add personalized feeds by displaying notes from a single relay, using the same REQ parameters we're already using - simply perform an auth handshake.

Coracle is the first client to implement it, you can see it in action here:
https://coracle.social/relays/wss%3A%2F%2Falgo.utxo.one%2F

Don't like the way my relay is surfacing content? You can easily adjust the weightings in your own relay by changing a few numbers - no coding required!

I look forward to seeing a blossoming market of algorithmic relays putting choice back in the user's hands. This is a big step forward for nostr, giving the masses what they want using open source, transparent algorithms.

This relay is released under an MIT license, feel free to use it however you see fit.

To run your own relay, get started here:
https://github.com/bitvora/algo-relay