You can connect to #nostr on private relays - there is no requirement to connect to a public relay.
BUT your connections, what events you see and who sees the events you post are limited by common relays.
Many people looking at nostr as a twitter replacement would say if you aren't on multiple public relays you aren't on nostr - since you can't communicate with a wide variety of people.
All you need is a key pair, a client and a relay and you can connect to nostr.
If I grant you access and share the private relay I run with you, and that's the only relay we used - it would be great for talking with each other, but impossible for others to follow our conversation and impossible for us to connect to the rest of the world. But we'd still be connected to nostr. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say we're connected via nostr.
This is actually an interesting use case I've been thinking about. Maybe there are some posts I want to share with my local community ONLY and not publish to wide general public relays, but only to a set of relays restricted to a limited purpose with a limited set of users.
Want to explore actually implementing community relays? Please DM me.
#grownostr #relays #communityrelays
Jesse Markowitz / Jesse
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2023-05-22 03:27:50
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