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Derek Ross
@Derek Ross
🚨 The Damus relay (relay.damus.io) is retiring at the end of July! 🚨

@jb55 has announced he's retiring the ole gal. Here's what you need to do:
1. Update your Nostr profile and swap out relay.damus.io for healthy alternatives
2. Check your apps' hardcoded relays as many clients ship with it baked in
3. Vibe coders, listen up, if you're building Nostr apps with LLMs, check your default relays! Models love to default to relay.damus.io and relay.nostr.band.

⚠️ Remove relay.nostr.band too as it's been dead for over a year.

Good replacements: relay.ditto.pub, relay.primal.net, nos.lol, purplerelay.com if you like large public relays. Though, my recommendation would be to choose smaller, lesser known relays and Web-of-Trust relays. These will help with spam and decentralization.

Update your relay lists while you still can!

Bonus: visit https://syncstr.shakespeare.wtf and sync your profile data from Damus to other relays.
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So Tachi · 9w
shutting down your relay now is like selling your bitcoin at 1$, big mistake.
OceanSlim · 9w
I keep getting no profile info found on syncstr no matter what relay I connect to
il_lost_ · 9w
you do it too https://cdn.satellite.earth/15a18de6e1874a36ac73b9b2492f2ed0b81834e6b8297c8cef64bdaf4e4b0435.jpg
Laeserin · 9w
You can also add wss://freelay.sovbit.host and wss://pipe.imwald.eu, for general-purpose relays. For documents (longform, highlights, wikis, publications, gitstuff) add wss://thecitadel.nostr1.com. For profiles use wss://profiles.nostr1.com
defrag2003.fun · 9w
Why the shutdown ?
Moon · 9w
Any idea, why the shutdown?
Frederik Handberg · 9w
I suspect this is the inevitable outcome of all relays. I don’t think there is any incentives to run a relay for free, and people don’t want to pay… I want Nostr to succeed, but have yet to see any ideas for a sustainable business model.
Azzamo · 9w
Azzamo relays are ready for the Damus refugees 🫡 wss://nostr.azzamo.net (free) wss://relay.azzamo.net (Premium/paid) Been running strong for years.
nupe · 9w
I have no idea how any of this works.
The ₿itcoin Artist · 9w
oh , wow
Johnny · 9w
nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfq9q9kky the nip 65 lists are the part that will lag. plenty of people will update their client and still hand out a dead relay in their outbox for months.
Monika Fleming · 9w
Its good time to run your own relays, costs are not high and everyone can make nostr more decentralized