SilberWitch on Nostr: Anyone can setup a relay, including governments. I'm running or managing like 6 of ...
Anyone can setup a relay, including governments. I'm running or managing like 6 of them, now, and I spin some temporary ones up, for testing, using NAK. I have two that only run on localhost.
They're just servers running over websockets, like half of the Internet. It's the communication protocol they use, that's novel, not the idea of sending json events from one machine to another. We were doing that, on an industrial scale, five years ago.
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2024-10-16 08:13:43Event JSON
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