node on Nostr: About bots: There are quite a few that come and go. You can spot them easily though: ...
About bots: There are quite a few that come and go. You can spot them easily though: they reply the same thing over and over under notes. They speak of airdrops for example. You can easily mute them.
About storage: notes are transmitted by relays. Images and videos are stored on services like nostr.build and others. Those services are maintained by devs. You could also broadcast an image that is stored on Dropbox or your personal server (in this case the image is maintained by you).
About relays: they are servers that transmit notes that you sign with your keys. They store the data.
Let’s say you’re connected to 5 relays, and one goes offline forever, your notes that you broadcasted won’t be available through that relay anymore. But they will be on the 4 others.
There’s a few ways to mitigate this: -The most censorship resistant way would be to run your own relay. If you have an umbrel or start9 personal server there’s options available out of the box for that. There’s also a lot of resources available on how to run your own relay on your own computer.
-You can use a blaster relay. (like nostr.mutinywallet.com). This is a specific kind of relay that broadcasts your notes to all major relays. If half the relays went down, your notes would still be available elsewhere.
-if you’re concerned about losing your data, there are services available to do backups:
*hist.nostr.land is a relay that you connect to and backups your profile and follow list
*nostrsync.live is a service that lets you backup your notes and profile locally. It also broadcasts your notes to all major relays for redundancy
I hope this helps
About storage: notes are transmitted by relays. Images and videos are stored on services like nostr.build and others. Those services are maintained by devs. You could also broadcast an image that is stored on Dropbox or your personal server (in this case the image is maintained by you).
About relays: they are servers that transmit notes that you sign with your keys. They store the data.
Let’s say you’re connected to 5 relays, and one goes offline forever, your notes that you broadcasted won’t be available through that relay anymore. But they will be on the 4 others.
There’s a few ways to mitigate this: -The most censorship resistant way would be to run your own relay. If you have an umbrel or start9 personal server there’s options available out of the box for that. There’s also a lot of resources available on how to run your own relay on your own computer.
-You can use a blaster relay. (like nostr.mutinywallet.com). This is a specific kind of relay that broadcasts your notes to all major relays. If half the relays went down, your notes would still be available elsewhere.
-if you’re concerned about losing your data, there are services available to do backups:
*hist.nostr.land is a relay that you connect to and backups your profile and follow list
*nostrsync.live is a service that lets you backup your notes and profile locally. It also broadcasts your notes to all major relays for redundancy
I hope this helps